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POPULATIONFOUNDATIONOF INDIA
ANNUAL REPORT
2005.2006
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PFI Governing Board and Advisory Council
Chairman's Address
Project Activities
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Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Field Interventions
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A. RCH Projects with Corporate Sector
i. Total Integrated Package for Dewas District in Madhya Pradesh
ii. Intensive Family Welfare Project in Gunnour Block, Badaun District,
Uttar Pradesh
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iii. Naya Savera in Rajasthan
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iv. Parivartan in Rajasthan
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v. Adolescent Reproductive Health Project in Jharkhand
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B. RCH Projects with NGOs and Other Agencies
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i. Training Providers, Benchmarking Services and Delivering Family Planning
Services through Public, Private and NGO Sectors in Bihar
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ii. Adolescent Initiatives in Uttaranchal
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iii. Strengthening NGO Capacity to Improve Maternal and Child Health Status
through Implementation of Life Cycle Approach (LCA) in Jharkhand
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iv. Enhancing Health Status of Women, Children and Adolescents by adapting
RCH Life Cycle Approach in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
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v. Safe Motherhood through RCH Intervention in Rajasthan
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vi. Urban RCH Services through Mobile Clinic in Delhi Slums
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vii. Comprehensive Reproductive and Child Health Programme for Malto Tribals
in Jharkhand State
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Capacity Building/Training
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A. Regional Training and Resource Development Centres (RTRDCs)
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B. Workshops on Behavioural Change Communication (BCC) in 26 Dioceses of
the Church of North India
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C. Training Programme on Management-Cum Behaviour Change Communication
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D. Resource Centres for Bihar and Chhattisgarh
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Advocacy and Communication
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A. National Level Advocacy Campaign against Sex-Selection and Pre-Birth
Elimination of Females
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B. Advocacyon Issues relating to Adolescents/ Young People
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i. Alliance for Young People: Towards A Healthy Future
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ii. Advocacy on Young Adults' Reproductive and Sexual
Health (YARSH) Issues in Bihar and Jharkhand
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C. Advocacy for Perspective Building on International Conference on
Population Development (lCPD and National Population Policy 2000
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D. Advocacy and Communication Programme in UNFPA:s Country
Programme(CP) - 6
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E. Reducing Maternal Mortality through Advocacy in the Four Districts of
Undivided Koraput in Orissa
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F Community Radio Programmes
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G. Innovative Communication Strategies in Eight Socio-Demographically
Backward EAG States
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H. No Scalpel Vasectomy- A Film Called 'Kinara'
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I. Media Coverage on HIV/AIDS
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J. Media Fellowships
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K. Chart Books and Factsheets on HIV/AIDS
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L. World Population Day, 2005 Celebrated
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Global Fund Round 4 HIV/AIDS Project: Access to Care and Treatment (ACT)
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Research, Studies and Evaluation
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A. A Study of Demographic Transition in Andhra Pradesh: Determinants
and Consequences
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B. Endline Evaluation Findings
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Scaling up Pilot Projects in Reproductive and Child Health in India
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Publications
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Governing Board
Advisory Council
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Dr Bharat Ram, who succeeded JRDTata as
Chairman in 1993, heads the Governing
Board. The Board, with the advice of an
Advisory Council, determines the policies
and programme strategies of the Foundation
and sets priorities. The distinguished
members of the Governing Board as on
March 31, 2006 were:
The Advisory Council, consisting of experts in
related fields, such as Sociology, Demography,
Communications, Health, Environment,
Education, Management, Women's Develop-
ment etc. contributes to the formulation of the
Foundation's policies and programmes. The
distinguished members of the Advisory Council
as on March 31, 2006 were:
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It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Annual
General Body Meeting of the Foundation.
India is the second country in the world after China,
to cross the one billion mark, in terms of its
population. According to the 2001 Census, India's
population was 102.8 crores. Viewed globally, India
constitutes 16.87% of world population and 2.4% of
the global land area. Currently India's population is
estimated at 112 crores and we are growing at 1.7%
per year.
The current high population growth rate in some parts
of the country is due to the large size of the population
in the reproductive age group, higher fertility due to
unmet need for contraception, and high wanted
fertility due to prevailing high Infant Mortality Rate
(lMR).
India is a country of striking demographic diversity.
Substantial differences are visible between states in
achievement of basic demographic indices. This has
led to significant disparity in current population size
and the potential to influence population increase in
future. The growth rates continue to be high in the
states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan. These states with high fertility rates are
the very states which have low literacy rates and low
health indicators with high infant mortality and high
maternal mortality. These states account for nearly
40% of the country's population and will contribute
well over 50% of growth in coming decades. The
performance and the demographic outcomes of these
states will determine the time and the size of
population at which India will achieve population
stabilization.
Population issues in these states need to be tackled
on a war footing and urgent steps are required to
make contraception more widely available, accessible
and affordable.
Therefore, the Foundation is focusing its activities in
the above socio-demographically backward states.
Despite government efforts to promote and provide
family planning services, there remains a vast unmet
need for effective and acceptable contraceptive and
other family planning services, especially for spacing
pregnancies. The Foundation is also expanding the
range of contraceptive choices, ensuring availability
and accessibility of services and improving standards
in quality of care.
India is at a stage of demographic transition with a
high proportion of adolescents and young people.
There are 33.1 crore young people (in the age group
10 to 24 years) in India, representing little less then
one third of the total population. This group is the
biggest and largest generation of young people India
ever had. In our country investing on young people's
health and development will result in expediting the
process of population stabilization. The PFI through
its various interventions and advocacy efforts is
working on young people's reproductive health.
On the request from the State Government of
Chhattisgarh, the PFI helped the state government
to formulate the draft of an Integrated Health and
Population Policy for Chhattisgarh. This year in April
2006, a two-day state level conference on "Population
Stabilization, Health and Social Development Issues
in Chhattisgarh" was organized at Raipur. The Chief
Minister of Chhattisgarh. Dr Raman Singh,
inaugurated the conference.
PFI leads a consortium of civil society organizations
in implementing a project on ':Access to Care and
Treatment (ACT) for HIV/AIDS". The Global Fund
supported programme is being implemented in the
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six high prevalence states of Tamil Nadu,
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland
and Manipur.
PFI in collaboration with the National Judicial
Academy (NJA), Bhopal, organized a two-day judicial
symposium on Population Issues in April 2006, which
was the first of its kind organized by the NJA with
any NGO. Sixteen sitting High Court judges and the
Directors of the State Judicial Academies attended
the symposium and the Honourable Chief Justice of
India Justice Y. K. Sabharwal was present at the
valedictory session.
The Foundation in collaboration with the Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration
Mussoorie organized two workshops on Population
Issues for senior officers of the Indian Administrative
Service.
The PFI in collaboration with the Bihar Legislative
Assembly organized a seminar on Health, Population
and Social Development issues for members of the
Legislative Assembly in August 2006. Shri Nitish
Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar inaugurated the
seminar and over 130 Members of the Bihar
Legislative Assembly were present.
The Foundation in order to facilitate the process of
up scaling of promising interventions in reproductive
and child health has initiated a new programme. The
PFI will be developed as a centre of excellence for
facilitating the scaling up of pilot initiatives in the
field of population and reproductive health in India.
We continue to work closely with central and state
governments on various population and health issues
at the national and state levels. PFI has been selected
as the Secretariat for the Advisory Group on
Community Action of the National Rural Health
Mission (NRHM).
The changing scenario provides us with an opportunity
as well as the challenge to position ourselves such
that we are an integral part of the nation's attempt
to achieve the goals of the National Population Policy
(NPP), 2000 and National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM), 2005.
Acknowledgements
The Foundation is grateful to the members of the
Governing Board, Advisory Council, consultative
panels, expert groups, social workers, health
professionals and NGO partners who have readily
responded to our call for advice and assistance in
the true spirit of service for a cause of national
importance.
We are grateful to the various departments of
government, particularly, the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare, Ministry of Youth Affairs, Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting including Prasar
Bharati, Press Information Bureau, NACO, office of
the Registrar General of India and Planning
Commission for their sustained interest and co-
operation in furthering the aims of the Foundation.
We are also grateful to the media-both print and
electronic, who in the recent times, have displayed
enhanced sensitivity to population, development and
gender issues, and helped build public opinion in
favour of determined action.
I wish to thank the partner donor organizations,
particularly to Global Fund, Packard Foundation,
UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF,CEDPA, Population
Reference Bureau, Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Plan
International, India.
I thank the various team members; the NGOs, CBOs,
Government and Corporate partners, who are
working towards realizing the vision of India and
humanity at large.
I take this opportunity to express the Governing
Board's and my own appreciation of the excellent
work put in by Mr A R Nanda, Executive Director. I
look forward to his new initiatives towards the future
of the Foundation. I also appreciate the staff of the
Foundation, who continue to discharge their duties
with enthusiasm and efficiency.
BHARAT RAM
Chairman
Date: September 29, 2006
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Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Field Interventions
A. RCH Projects with the Corporate
Sector
. To provide basic quality primary RCH
services in the target areas through mobile
vans.
A project titled "Total Integrated Package
for Dewas District in Madhya Pradesh"
is being implemented by the Ranbaxy
Community Health Care Society, Dewas in
collaboration with the PFI covering a population
of 100,000 in Dewas block. The first phase was
of three years duratio,n starting from November
2001 to March 2005 including a no-cost
extension of four months. The time period for
the second phase is from 2005 to 2007. The
cost of the project is shared equally by the
PPI and Ranbaxy Community Health Care
Society.
The services are provided from 35 service
delivery points (6 urban service delivery points
covering a population 17, 000 and 29 rural
centres covering a population 83000) through
two mobile units. The project covers half of the
block with a population of around 1,00,000. As
part of its project strategy, Dais, Community
Health Volunteers (CHVs), Aanganwadi Workers
(AWWs) and Gram Swasthya Samiti members
were trained. Networking was established with
the government for health and contraceptive
supplies, training and for care of the referral
cases. The project also established links with the
Indore School of Social Work and got students
to come and participate in the community health
activities.
. To build capacity of community level
volunteers on issues related to general health
&hygiene and reproductive and child health
(RCH) to ensure their involvement in making
primary health services available at the
grassroots level.
. To raise awareness and knowledge of the
community stakeholders, such as school
teachers, Aanganwadi Workers, ANMs, local
elected leaders, opinion makers, Registered
Medical Practitioners and other members,
on general health and RCH issues through
Information, Education and Communication
and Behavioural Change Communication
programmes.
Before the commencement of the second phase,
a mid-term evaluation was carried out and it was
revealed that the contraceptive prevalence rate
had increased to 65.4% as compared to the
baseline figure of 50%. It has also shown an
improvement in ANC coverage. In the second
phase, in addition to its first phase of activities,
the additional components were (i) appointment
and capacity building of 35 male CHVs, and Oi)
involvement of the Panchayats and Self Help
Groups (SHGs) for promotion of social marketing
and increase in community participation.
As part of the modified strategy, the SHGs were
formed at the village level and the IEC activities
on health related issues were carried out with
the SHGs. The Panchayat members supported
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the programme by providing space for the clinics
and helping in dissemination of information.
. Duringthe pastoneyear (April 2005- March
2006), the project catered to 18,528
beneficiaries through 647 field visits.
. There have been a total of 1650 live births
out of which 789 were institutional deliveries.
Two hundred and seventeen women
underwent sterilization, 806 women were
started on pills, 1717 women accessed
condoms, 56 women opted for CuT insertion
and 315 men undervent non-scalpel
vasectomy.
. 383 males and 602 women were treated for
RTI/STls.
. 3096 infants were immunized.
. 115 Dais were trained along with training of
73 Aanganwadi Workers and 58 Community
Health Volunteers. Some Dais' were also
exposed to practical training at the civil
hospital in collaboration with the
government. Training for Gram Swasthya
Samiti members were also conducted.
. The campaign on 'School Health Awareness'
was conducted, where 328 children were
medically examined. Street plays were
organized by students of the Indore School
of Social Work.
Chemicals Society for Rural Development
(TCSRD) in collaboration with the PFI, covering
92 villages in Gunnour Block of Badaun district
in Uttar Pradesh since December 2001 for a
period of five years. The cost of the project is
shared equally by TCSRD and the PFI.
1. To provide comprehensive health care to the
rural population in Gunnour block, so as to
achieve the targets laid down by the Uttar
Pradesh Population Policy. The specific
targets are:
a) To reduce the Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
to 2.7 per woman.
b) To reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate
(MMR) by 50% from 707 to 394 per
100,000 live births.
The project titled "Intensive Family Welfare
Project" is being implemented by the Tata
c) Toreduce the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
from 85 per 1000 live births to 73 per
1000 live births.
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2. To ensure that even after the completion of
the project, the villages are self
sufficient, aware and continue to follow the
direction for sustaining the achievements.
3. To see that the villagers of the target area
are aware about the government services,
are able to utilize the services and to demand
for them, if need be.
The entire project area is covered in two phases.
In the first phase of 2 years, 48 villages were
covered periodically. The RCH services were
delivered by a mobile team headed by a doctor.
The Dais and village volunteers were trained by
using external resource agencies. Supportive
information and communication activities were
done. Some of the volunteers from the phase-I
area have now become Aanganwadi workers.
The second phase started in April 2004 and
under this, 46 villages are being covered. A male
and a female (mostly a Daj) volunteers are there
in most of the villages. They have been trained
on various issues like first aid, five cleans during
delivery etc and the services are being provided
through a mobile van. The communication
activities for the masses and for the groups of
young mothers and men have been conducted.
The flip charts were prepared by the project team
to generate information.
was carried out. These maps are displayed at
prominent places, such as schools and Panchayat
Ghars. The contraceptive acceptors have
increased in number over the last year as
compared to the previous year. The village level
volunteers as well as the local shopkeepers are
stocking contraceptives. Six hundred and forty
women accepted sterilization while 895 women
accepted pills. Two thousand nine hundred and
twenty six condoms were distributed and 67
women accessed Saheli.
Apart from this, during the past one year, a total
of 7641 patients were treated, out of which 3847
were general patients, 1251 were antenatal
women, 991 were PNCs, and 656 for RTI/STls.
4815 children were immunized and 246 children
were treated for diarrhoea and 710 for Upper
Respiratory Tract Infections.
Awareness has been done on adolescent health
issues and a special module has been prepared
including issues like cleanliness, sanitation,
literacy and education along with games and role
play, which are used in school health
programmes. The volunteers were given the title
of 'Swaasthya Mitras' and centres of service
delivery were named as 'Parivar Kalyan
Kendras'. These were given publicity through the
project and the volunteers were supported with
a small supply of contraceptives, basic medicines
and encouraged to charge for services.
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Last year, the Aanganwadi workers became The project attempts to build the capacity and
functional at the village level and now they are credibility of the volunteers at the community
working in coordination with the ANMs and
volunteers of the concerned villages. At the
level and encourages them to deliver serviqes
even after the completion of the project. A stock
village level, service mapping regarding
availability of the services of ANMs, Trained Birth
was taken for the functioning of phase I
volunteers and it was found that, in most of the
Attendants (TBAs) , first aid service providers cases, the community treated them as resource
and contraceptive supply sources at the village persons for contraceptives and first aid.
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The Population Foundation of India in association
with Lakshmi Cement (A division of JK Corp.
limited) is implementing an integrated family
welfare programme "Naya Savera" in 10 villages
of Pindwara tehsil of Sirohi district of Rajasthan.
This four-year project started in August 2004 and
is covering a population of 27,000.
Communication) and BCC (Behavioral
Change Communication) programmes.
3. To provide basic quality RCH services in the
target areas through a mobile van.
.AII the project staff were trained at the
Population Research Centre (PRC), Udaipur and
the Action Research and Training in Health
(ARTH), Udaipur. The outreach workers such as
Village Level Motivators (VLM) were identified
in each village and trained. The Traditional Birth
Attendants (TBAs) both trained and untrained
were identified and trained on safe deliveries.
The baseline survey was carried out and it
revealed that half of the women delivered at their
homes. The contraceptive prevalence rate was
34%. Very few had heard of HIV/AIDS and only
40% of those, who have RTI/STI went for
treatment. Childhood immunization coverage
was also very poor (23% primary immunization).
1. To build capacity of community level
volunteers on issues related to general
health, hygiene and RCH to ensure their
involvement in making services available on
a sustainable basis at the grassroots level.
2. To raise awareness and knowledge of the
community stakeholders such as school
teachers, Aanganwadi workers, ANMs, local
elected leaders, opinion makers, Registered
Medical Practitioners (RMPs) and other
members on general health and RCH issues
through IEC (Information, Education and
The reproductive and child health services were
provided through a mobile van in the target area.
The mobile team included a doctor, a nurse and
a social worker, who visited two villages every
day. The Village Level Motivators in each village
helped and assisted them in identifying pregnant
women and also helped in community
mobilization. Seven hundred and fifty ANCs and
511 PNCs were done. Risk cases were also
identified and special care and arrangements
made for them. Four hundred and eighty two
clients were counseled and provided with
contraceptive choices. Two tho,usand one
hundred and ninety one children below five years
of age were immunized in the past year.
Two thousand one hundred and eighty eight
house to house contacts were made by the
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project staff in the year 2005 - 2006. Apart from
one to one contacts, group counseling and other
IEC material from government departments were
used in the project.
Coordination meetings were held with
government officials. Medicines and IEC material
were mobilized from the government
departments.
from 5th July to 14th July, 2005. The Mentees
were Dr Poonam Mehta, Medical Officer,
PrimaryHealth Centre - Gamharia, Government
of Jharkhand; Dr Pushpa Tiwari, Registrar, Tata
Steel Rural Development Society, Jharkhand and
Dr S K Mitra, Head of Medical Unit, Krishi Gram
Vikas Kendra, Ranchi.
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The project "PARIVARTAN" started in July 2004
in association with JK Tyre in Rajsamand district
of Rajasthan. This five year project has been
The Visionary Leadership Programme (VLP) is
an innovative and exciting leadership
development initiative funded by the Packard
Foundationin four countries - India (Bihar and
providing services to a population of over 60000
in 60 villages of the district. In the first phase of
the project, 32 underserved villages were
selected.
Jharkhand), Ethiopia, Nigeria and Sudan. The
VLP programme is being implemented by a
consortium of three organizations - the
International Council on Management of
1. To build the capacity of community level
volunteers on issues related to general health
Population Programmes (ICOMP), based in
& hygiene and RCH and to ensure their
Selangor, Malaysia; Partners in Population and
involvement in making services available on
Development (PPD), based in Dhaka,
a sustainable basis at the grassroots level.
Bangladesh; and the Centre for African Family
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Studies (CAFS), based in Nairobi, Kenya. The 2. To raise awareness and knowledge of the
aim of this programme is to create a critical corps
of 200 leaders in the four above mentioned
community stakeholders (school teachers,
Aanganwadi workers, ANMs, local elected
countries that will make a difference to
leaders, opinion makers, Registered Medical
population and reproductive health programmes
in their respective countries.
Practitioners etc) on RCH issues and general
health through IEC (Information, Education
and Communication) and BCC (Behavioural
The VLP Consortium identified Mr A R Nanda,
Executive Director, PFI as a VLP Mentor. The
PFI had hosted and mentored two participants
from Jharkhand - Ms Dilith Castleton, Joint
Change Communication) programmes.
3. To provide quality RCH services in the target
areas through a mobile van.
Administrator, Tata Steel Family Initiative
Foundation and Dr Lindsay Barnes, Women's
Health Coordinator, Jan Chetna Manch, Bokaro
- from 19th July to 28th July, 2004. A second
group of three Mentees were mentored by PFI
4. To organize socia-economic development
activities in the target villages to enhance
the effectiveness and acceptability of the
programme.
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After initiation of the project, the staff comprising
a Project Coordinator and Social Educators were
recruited and trained on RCH issues at the
Population Research Centre (PRC), Udaipur,
which was one of the Regional Training and
Resource Development Centres (RTRDCs) of
the PFI. Other project staff members such as
panchayat coordinators and village level
motivators were also trained by the doctors and
resource persons.
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A baseline survey was carried out in the project
area and the further strategy was developed. It
showed that only 17% of women had ANC check
ups in the last three years, 30% of women had
institutional deliveries and 27% of home
deliveries were attended to by the trained health
staff. Only 32% of children were fully immunized.
It also showed that 13% of women had
knowledge of modern contraceptives while 21%
were using any contraception. Twenty percent
of the women were aware of ways of prevention
of HIV/AIDS.
A review meeting of the project was conducted
at the PFI in September 2005. At the review
meeting, the progress and achievement on each
activity was discussed. Baseline findings were
also shared with the project staff. The future
strategy of the project was prepared during the
meeting.
The project area was divided into two clusters
of around 30 villages each and in the first phase,
service delivery is being done in 32 villages. Door
to door visits in the community were made during
the days of the medical camps to create
awareness about the services that have been
made available.
Awareness camps were organized in 22 villages
with the aim to spread awareness on issues such
as antenatal care, postnatal care, safe delivery,
immunization and the importance of family
planning.
Materials and medicines like vaccines and
contraceptives were procured from the Chief
Medical and Health Officers (CMHOs) and other
essential medicines were purchased from
outside. Several monitoring formats such as
antenatal cards and immunization cards were
developed, printed and were used for all ANC
as well as for immunization cases.
Socio-economic development activities were
taken up by the organization in the target villages
during the last year. They have constructed a
water tank with a capacity of 35,000 litres in
Mandawer village. Two hundred and twenty five
households have been getting direct benefit from
this water tank.
During the period April 2005 - March 2006, the
clinical RCH services have been provided
through a medical team consisting of a lady
doctor and nurses. The medical team visited
remote villages on a regular interval through a
mobile van. Total beneficiaries served during the
period were 7690, which included 323 ANCs and
105 PNCs. Ninety four women were referred for
institutional deliveries and 988 clients were
provided with contraceptives, which included 336
women, who were given pills. Six hundred and
fifty two clients were provided with condoms.
Two hundred ninety nine children wer~ immunized
in the project area. In addition to the above, a
total of 3360 house to house contacts were
made.
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The Parivar Kalyan Sansthan (PKS) of Tata
Motors and the Tata Steel Family Initiative
Foundation (TSFIF) implemented the projects on
Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health in
urban slums of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Each
project covered a population of 20,000
adolescents for a period of 2 years with the
following objectives:
./ To provide sex education through adolescent
reproductive health sessions in schools and
kishore/kishori groups.
./ To provide life skills to increase their decision
making power and negotiating skills.
./ To promote condom use amongst the youth.
./ Tocreate awarenessabout STD, HIV/AIDS
and to promote gender equality and gender
equity.
./ Tocreate responsibility of child spacing and
child bearing amongst both males and
females.
./ To provide a wide and informed range of
contraceptives through clinics.
The primary strategy of the project included a
combination of ARH sessions in schools and
addressing of out of school adolescents through
peer approach. This was complemented by
making services accessible to the adolescents
and IEC activities.
addition, both in and out of school sessions were
organized with adolescents along with the
sensitization of teachers and the parents. The
project also organized health melas, quiz
programmes, Nukkad nataks, celebration of
important days and other IEC activities with the
involvement of adolescents and the community.
The projects provided Reproductive Health
services, which were available and accessible to
the adolescents through the static clinics located
within the urban slums.
The program was completed in September 2005.
An end line survey was carried out in the project
areas.
B. RCH Projects with NOOs and Other
Agencies
The project "Training Providers, Benchmarking
Services and Delivering Family Planning
Clinical Methods through Public, Private and
NGO Sectors in Bihar"in collaboration with
JANANI, Patna, Bihar covered three divisions
of Bihar (Motihari, Purnia and Gaya). It was
sanctioned for two years starting from March
2003 - March 2004 and was given an extension
of one year (April 2005 - March 2006).
Objectives:
The key strategy included forming of adolescent
groups and sensitizing them on Reproductive
Health issues by using peer approach. In
1) To create easily accessible training facilities
for doctors and ANMs from the private, NGO
and public sectors in all districts of Bihar.
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2) To deliver large volumes of family planning
services at affordable prices to the low and
low-middle income groups.
3) To benchmark and promote quality of care.
of providing doctors, monitoring of functioning
and managing expenses. Motihari continued to
be under Janani ownership without an available
partner till the end of the project. The Purnia
clinic has also been the best performing clinic
out of the three.
1) Three new clinics, one in each divisional
headquarters namely Purnia, Gaya and
Motihari to be established.
2) Selected doctors would be brought under a
franchising framework to ensure quality of
care, including the price for the services
(benchmarkto be between 30%- 50%of the
lowest commercial sector prices).
3) Doctors and ANMs from the private, NGO
and government sectors to be trained in
clinical family planning services.
The clinics were set up in all three districts in
Gaya, Purnia and Motihari and were delivering
reproductive health and family planning services.
The Gaya clinic had to be relocated and this
resulted in lowering of caseloads for sometime.
However, the work at the relocated clinic picked
up during the last six months of the project.
The Purnia and Gaya clinics were made 24-hour
set-ups. They started offering a full range of
comprehensive reproductive health services
including deliveries, caesareans and
hysterectomies.
These services were
complemented by other services ego repair of
hernia, and hydroceolectomies. These two clinics
are run in partnership with local entrepreneurs
(a wholesale drug dealer and a doctor
respectively for Purnia and Gaya). The partners
contributed to the clinics very effectively in terms
A number of family planning camps were
organized at Purnia and Gaya and were a great
success contributing to 76% of sterilization load.
Women Outreach Workers (WOW) as health
promoters from urban areas were trained to
increase referrals to the clinics as a counterpart
of Titli centres in the rural areas. The overall client
load including sterilizations among the three
clinics increased during the year. The referrals
from Titli centres to the three clinics were around
32%. Thirteen percent referrals have been from
outreach workers. The clinics at Motihari and
Gaya had the maximum number of referrals
whereas Purnia clinic had the maximum number
of clients, who came on their own.
One of the major IEC activities initiated during
the year was publicity through mobile vans, which
are specially equipped to promote Surya Clinics.
The vans moved in the areas of the clinics and
showed movies in between. while conducting
audio promotions.
During the past one year, a total of 10793
sterilisations, 2177 MTPs, 575 IUD insertions,
and 15 non-scalpel vasectomies were done in
all the three clinics supported by PFI. One
thousand three hundred and forty four depo-
provera injections were given in tnis period.
The Janani clinic had applied for registration for
medical termination of pregnancies. In this
context, the Civil Surgeon had inspected the
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Motihari clinic but the clearance for all the three
clinics is still awaited.
Twenty four doctors and eight ANMs from the
region were trained at Patna Surya Clinic on
family planning services. In addition, 'in Situ'
training was also done, which means training
doctors at their own clinics.
Benchmarking cost and quality of care: The
pricing of the services, which is much lower than
the market rate, was advertised extensively on
bill boards and wall paintings. Protocols have
been developed for operative procedures and are
adhered to at all the clinics.
The project activities were completed in March
2006. An endline evaluation of the project is
being done by an external agency to assess the
impact of the project.
covering 32,700 adolescents from the three
blocks in three districts of Dehradun, Udham
Singh Nagar and Nainital of Uttaranchal. over a
period of three years from March 2003-March
2006 by using a case control study design, with
joint funding from the Population Foundation of
India, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) and the
Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT).
1. To increase Knowledge, Attitude and
Practice$ among adolescents
on
reproductive and sexual health issues.
2. To enhance general and reproductive health
of adolescents in the age group of 13 to 19
yea rs.
3. To promote safe sexual behaviour and
lifestyle amongst adolescents in the project
areas.
"Adolescent Initiatives in Uttaranchal" was
implemented by the Himalayan Institute Hospital
Trust, (Rural Development Institute), Dehradun,
4. To enhance adolescent maternal health
amongst the married adolescents in the age
group of 13 to 19 years.
5. To promote career and development
opportunities for adolescents in the project
areas.
A Rapid Rural Appraisal and Community Needs
Assessment was done with eighteen NGOs from
the three districts and the findings were used to
design the baseline survey questionnaire.
Four NGOs out of 18 were finally selectep as
the implementing agencies. The four
implementing partners were VTTDS, AASTHA.
HIHT and CHIRAG. The NGOs were trained on
various
programme
Implementation,
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Management Information System and
Behavioural Change Communication issues.
Trainingfor Dais from the project areas of NGOs
was done by the HIHTin collaboration with local
Primary Health Centre (PHC). The NGOs
trained 14,582 adolescents during the year
bringing the total to 32047 adolescents in 1923
batches.
The baseline survey had shown that there was
80% literacy rate in the project areas. It also
showed that nearly half of the adolescents had
adequate knowledge on contraceptive methods.
One-third of the adolescents were found to be
anaemic (symptomatic) and had experienced
symptoms of RTI/STI. Of the married
adolescents, 40% had gone through pregnancy
but less than 15% had ANC check ups or safe
deliveries.
A directory of NGOs working on adolescent
health issues in Uttaranchal was developed and
made available on CDs. With technical
assistance from the "Thought-Shop Foundation",
the communication materials were developed.
The programme was given the name of "Pehal"
and had a Pehal logo. Calendars, posters, the
project attire (jacket + cap) and brag sheet on
Adolescent Initiatives in Uttaranchal (AIU) in
Hindi were developed.
Under the project other materials like a Pehal
radio phone-in program, newsletter, PFI's
'Dehleez' radio series, nukkad natak, cassettes
on gender discrimination, posters on safe
motherhood, nutrition, HIV/ AIDS, RTI/STDs,
contraceptives, anthem and a website on AIU
were developed. A pehal radio programme was
broadcast fromAIRNazibabadin Novemberand
December 2005 last year.
An Adolescent Resource Centre (ARC) was
established at the HIHTand at the NGO's areas.
A mobile library with 50 books was initiated for
all NGOs to cover all the project villages. A
documentary film, a monograph and a booklet
:Aao Jane aur Samjhen' were developed for the
adolescents with the aim of providing basic
information about health, nutrition & hygiene
issues. A network of a total of 1437 adolescents
has been developed through an adolescent
resource center.
An Adolescent Vocational Cell was established
at the HIHTfor initiating the career development
prospects for youth in Uttaranchal. A directory
of organizations providing technical and financial
assistance for vocational development was
made. A total of 27 career fairs were organized
in schools by the partner NGOs in the past year.
An "Adolescent Hulchul" programme was
organized in December 2005 incollaboration with
the government at Jaspur block by VTTDS.
Around 300 adolescents participated at the
programme. A "Maa Beti Sammelan" was
organised at Jaspur, where 256 adolescents
participated. A rally of adolescents was also
organised. The HIHT was approached by the
State Education Department to organize such
activities for the department. The NGO named
CHIRAGorganized a block level adolescents'
sport competition. During the last year, 1072
Nukkad Nataks, 199 puppet shows, and 239
school competitions were organized. A total of
1358 wall writings were done durin!g this period
A block level dissemination was organized for
Jaspur and Sahaspur, which were attended by
government representatives.
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One hundred sixty two clinics and 29 health
camps have been conducted with the
participation of 10679 adolescents over the past
one year. 11928 adolescents were immunized
against tetanus. 1558 adolescents benefited
from the health clinics and nearly half of them
were females. 4824 adolescents were tested for
haemoglobin level. Out of them 58.3% were
found to be anaemic (with Hb level less than 12
gm./dl). 574 eligible couples were identified and
given counselling for spacing, ANC and safe
delivery practices. Out of these, 42% (241) were
using contraceptive methods.
Groups of active adolescents formed the
"Adolescent Pehal Committees", which helped
in the implementation of project activities and
the committees met regularly. Senior members
of the village formed the "Village Pehal
Committee". These helped in community
sensitization, which is a very important aspect
for the success of the project. During this year,
2749 meetings were organized by the Adolescent
Pehal Committees and 1688 meetings were
organized by the Village Pehal Committees. The
project is currently being evaluated.
To strengthen NGO capacity in the state of
Jharkhand to implement Reproductive and Child
Health programmes through Life Cycle Approach
to bring about improvement in the RCH status.
1. To strengthen capacity of four partner NGOs
to provide integrated RCH-HIV services by
using life cycle approaches in four divisions
of Jharkhand.
"Strengthening NGO capacity to improve
Maternal and Child Health Status in
Jharkhand through a Life Cycle Approach is a
programme of PFI implemented by the Child In
Need Institute (CINI), Jharkhand and Nav
Bharati Jagriti Kendra in Churchu Block of
Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand covering 85,000
population for a period of 5 years.
2. To develop and implement the life cycle
based community level intervention to
improve safe motherhood, child survival and
growth, achievement of fertility goals, male
participation, adolescents' informed choices
about health and health delivery in one block
setting (Churchu block of Hazaribagh
district) through one partner NGO. !
3. To document and disseminate these
experiences to other NGOs and government
in the State.
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The project is to be implemented in three phases
over a period of five years.
I) Strengthening capacity for developing
intervention package (6 months). A baseline
study will be followed by a detailed
implementation plan to be evolved.
II) Implementation Phase: (48 months)
. Strengthening capacity for programme
implementation with a desired level of quality
of care (48 months).
. Capacity development of other NGO (6
months to run concurrently with above).
III) In the last 6 months, an endline survey would
be carried out, which would provide valuable
demonstration sites in the State.
. The project was launched in August 2004 and
the staff were recruited and trained on RCH
issues by CINI. The baseline survey
conducted by CINI showed that there was a
high level of awareness on ANC, TT, IFA,
sterilization and childhood immunization.
Awareness on danger signs of pregnancy &
child birth, five cleans, importance of
institutional deliveries, newborn care, signs
of HIV/RTI/STI and advantages of condom
use was however low. The reach of
government services was found to be very
low. The complete ANC coverage was only
24.9%, 90% home deliveries were conducted
mainly by the untrained persons, couple
protection rate was 40%, immunization
coverage of children was 24% and the mean
age at marriage was found to be 15 years.
. The Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) was
developed based on the baseline findings and
the budget was reallocated to provide more
attention to the underserved areas. It was
also decided to work in close coordination
with the Jharkhand Government's Sahiyaa
programme (village level community health
workers) .
. Selection of Sahiyaas was done in
collaboration with Village Development
Committees (VDCs), which were formed and
oriented by the CINI- NBJK in all villages.
Seventy VDCs were formed and oriented on
health issues. 176 Sahiyaas were selected
and trained on RCH issues. They have been
linked with the health workers (project staff)
for experience. Dai trainings were also done
in the project area.
. The community monitoring tools for Sahiyaas
to track full range of ANC/PNC and
immunization services were developed and
are in use. Maintenance of cohort register
of each case was done by health workers
and Sahiyaas as part of case management.
. A block level convention was organized,
which brought together 93 Sahiyaas,
Government ANMs and VDC members to
share their experiences. Sahiyaas' meets
have been organized regularly to provide a
platform for government officials and
Sahiyaas to interact at the block level meets
for VHCs. There are incentives for the
Sahiyaas', who perform well and they are
also given exposure visits.
. The state government has provided an
ambulance to NBJK to provide services at
the remote areas. The Health Melas have
been organized periodically and local
politicians have been invited to inaugurate
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the Melas. The project staff participated at
various government programmes like Yowan
Mangal Mela, malaria camps, diarrhoea
camps, polio programme, catch up round for
immunization, family planning programmes
etc. Regular meetings with government
health staff were organized between project
workers with ANMs and the health workers
to make their monthly plan together.
. The formation of groups of pregnant and
lactating women and males was done. These
groups have been working as agents to
create awareness on health issues and they
have organized several BCC activities like
nukad nataks, wall writings and video shows
regularly.
. The village health committees have also been
keeping a record of malaria, diarrhoea, births
and deaths of their village and discuss these
issues at their monthly meetings. They have
also tried to solve the problems arising in
the communities due to lack of services with
the help of the government. The VHCs have
now formed a federation at the block level,
which will function as a pressure group.
. Awareness generation was done with
adolescents on the issues of RCH (HIV/
AIDS, RTI/STI). In e:very village, there is an
adolescent group and they have been
meeting once a month to discuss various
health issues. Most of these groups also
organized several BCC activities (nukad
nataks, wall writings etc).
During the past one year, 683 pregnant women
were identified. Five hundred twenty five
pregnant women were provided antenatal care.
448 deliveries took place and out of them 87
were institutional deliveries. There were 72 high
risk referrals and 303 women were provided post
natal care. 1139 accepted condoms as a method
of family planning, 442 couples accepted OCPs
and 228 cases were referred for sterilization.
2,235 children were provided immunization
including 562 BCG vaccinations, 1418 DPT
vaccinations and 365 doses of measles.
n
This project started on October 1, 2004 and
would be completed in September 2007. The
Population Foundation of India has been
supporting Manav Seva Sansthan (SEVA),
Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh for the programme
'Enhancing heath status of women, children
and adolescents by adapting RCH life cycle
approach". The project covers 53 villages out
of 148 villages of Jungle Kaudia block with a
population of 51,180.
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. To sensitize, train and build capacities of the
project level stakeholders for improving the
quality of RCH services and ensuring its
sustainability.
. To raise awareness and sensitize the target
community on RCH issues, health and
treatment seeking behaviour through
intensive IECI BCC activities.
. To deliver quality RCH services by adapting
a life cycle approach
The project area is divided into 13 clusters and
each has a Health Information and Service
Center (HISC) managed by a community health
educator. The centers are equipped with
necessary instruments and manpower for
primary health care and counseling. The space
for the centers is provided by the community.
Under the project, 53 village volunteers from the
project villages were trained on RH issues.13
Cluster Health Educators (CHE) and other
project staff were also trained.
The baseline survey of the project was conducted
and it revealed that the skilled birth attendance
during delivery (both institutional and home) was
only 28%, colostrum feeding was 20% and
complete immunization was found to be only
31 .4%. Contraceptive prevalence rate was as low
as 16.4% and the prevalence of RTI/STI was
found to be 40%.
The doctor and the nurse periodically visited the
HISCs. The village volunteers in each village and
CHEs in each HISC met regularly to counsel
pregnant and lactating women and adolescents
of the area. A user fee of Rs 101- was charged
and it was valid for a month. Money collected
was utilized for the sustenance of these centres.
During the last year, 8915 clients were treated
at the HISC. This included 1374 ANCs, 547
PNCs and 1905 children. 765 women were given
contraceptive pills and 3093 condoms were
distributed. 444 women were provided treatment
for RTI/STI and 46 were treated for infertility.
During the year, efforts were made to establish
community based groups. 53 adolescents groups
and 75 SHGs had been formed in the project
area.. Each member contributed a fixed amount
of money for group formation, which was used
for catering to the emergency health need of
members. Monthly meetings of each group were
organized and became a good platform for the
members to share their problems.
Extensive IEC activities were carried out through
wall paintings, awareness rallies, hoardings at
strategic locations and group meetings etc.
Several formats such as an ANC card, a child
heath card and an eligible couple register were
designed and used.
Monthly monitoring meetings were held with the
project staff by the implementing agency to take
stock of project activities. Special interventions
were made for prevention and treatment of
seasonal outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in
the area. This included information dissemination
through wall paintings, camps and meetings with
villagers, distribution of neem oil to households
and providing affected people an! access to
services.
An AIDS awareness rally was organized by the
NGO in which 400 students participated.
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The project "Safe motherhood through RCH
intervention in Rajasthan" was started in
October 2004 for a period of three years. It is
being implemented by three agencies namely (I)
Shikshit Rojgar Kendra Prabandhak Samiti
(SRKPS). Jhunjhunu. (II) Shiv Siksha Samiti
(SSS). Tonk. (III) Social Work environment for
Rural advancement (SWERA). Ajmer. The
project covers 63 villages with a population of
over 64000 in three blocks spread over in three
districts of Rajasthan.
. To train and build capacity of the project level
stakeholders (including ANMs. AWWs. PRI
members. women SHG members. etc.) for
improving the quality of RCH services in
general and those related to safe
motherhood in particular.
. To raise awareness and sensitize the target
community on safe motherhood and RCH
through intensive IECI BCC activities. and
. To deliver quality safe motherhood and RCH
services by establishing health centres
accessible to all the target villages.
The project is a replication of the 24 hour
midwives managed health centre. a model
developed by the Action Research Training and
Health (ARTH). Udaipur. ARTH is the technical
partner in the entire initiative. The project aims
to provide affordable. accessible and good
quality health services especially in the context
of safe motherhood.
Under the project. three 24-hour health centers
were established and are functional since June
2005. one each in the selected project areas.
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The health centres are managed by the
residential nurse-midwives, who attend to
outdoor patients, conduct deliveries, manage and
refer obstetric emergencies and refer the clients
to the doctor, who visits periodically. The nurse-
midwives underwent intensive skill based
training at ARTH, Udaipur. Over the last year,
the project has seen a steady growth in the
number of clients, especially pregnant women
and children seeking services in the health
centres and field clinics. During the last year,
2733 clients visited the health centres. Out of
them, 1286 had RCH related problems, 298
received ANCs, 108 deliveries were conducted
by ,the ANMs out of which 49 were at the health
centres, 95 women were provided PNC and 20
women were referred to higher centres.
Seventeen women were given emergency
obstetric care, 22 women were given
contraceptive pills and 39 were provided with
condoms at the centres.
Referral for obstetric emergencies was provided.
The transport to the nearest identified referral
centre was arranged at fixed rates and the client
was accompanied by trained health personnel.
Transportation costs and initial expenses in the
referral center were covered by the emergency
health fund.
The other staff members including the NGO
managers, have also been trained to assist and
monitor delivery of quality RCH services with
special emphasis to cover the under privileged
and marginalized sections of the population.
The village health workers and traditional birth
attendants (Dai) have been trained on safe
delivery. Regular trainings and reviews were
conducted to enhance the skills and the
knowledge of the staff.
A baseline survey was carried out in the field
areas of the three NGOs. It revealed the
following:
In addition to the health centres, the field clinics
in each village provided services to the women
and children in close proximity to their houses.
In addition, the staff conducted home visits and
organized meetings with various stakeholders to
generate awareness on issues of safe
motherhood.
Child care and immunization are an integral part
of the programme. The family planning services
and counselling also reached the people of the
project area especially through the field clinics.
In addition to the service delivery, the project
has also generated awareness amongst
adolescents as well as women of reproductive
age group through various awareness camps and
rallies in the last year.
The project "Delivery of Quality RCH Services
through mobile clinic in urban slums in Delhi
and linkage to community development
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activities" is supported and implemented by the
Foundation in collaboration with CASP and
SWAASTHYA. The project is planned for a
duration of three years starting in September
2004.
);> To improve the reproductive and sexual
health status of women and adolescent girls
by providing RCH services through a
comprehensive package. Towards this end,
the sub-objectives are -
. To set up/strengthen clinical services
. To generate demand for RSH issues and
services
Under the project, the slums of Badarpur with a
population of around 80000 are being covered
by the NGO, CASP. Swaasthya is covering the
slum pockets of Tigri and Nagla Machi with a
total population of 30000.
1) Delivery of quality RCH services. The
package includes:
* Childhood
immunization
and
management of childhood illnesses
* OPD facility for Ante Natal Care CANC),
Post Natal Care CPNC) check-up and
referral.
* Availability of contraceptives including
Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device
ClUCD) insertion
* STD/RTls treatment and management
* Treatment of general ailments
* Counseling for ANC, PNC, STDs/RTI
management,contraceptives, anaemia,
etc.
* Basic laboratory facilities
* Clinic based IEC
* Follow-up of the client and client with her
partner/s (in case of STDs)
2) IEC/BCC to be done on Reproductive
Health issues
3) Linkage to be established with the existing
community based activities of NGOs which
includes Bal Panchayat and income
generating group in case of CASP and
adolescent groups in case of Swaasthya.
During the year 2005-2006,
* A baseline was done in the field areas of
both the NGOs. The field area of CASP
showed that the female literacy rate was
40%. 65% of the currently pregnant women
received antenatal services and 54% had
institutional delivery. 45% of the women were
using contraception and almost all the men
were aware of the temporary methods.
Knowledge of RTI and STI was good both
among women and men. 60% of women and
99% of men were aware of HIV/AIDS.
* A baseline survey carried out in the field area
of Swaasthya showed that although ANC
registration was high, but the percentage of
women receiving complete ANC was 37%.
The knowledge of five cleans was 38%. The
percentage of women using modern methods
of contraception was 51%. 29% of children
born were immediately breastfed and 63%
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received full immunization. 69% of the eligible
women were aware of HIV/AIDS.
* The PFI mobile van, which is fully equipped
to function as a clinic has been providing
services six days a week (4 days to CASP
and 2 days to Swaasthya field areas)
* Training of staff and Dais were done. The
community volunteers were also trained.
* Awareness generation was done in the
community with the help of available groups
and community resource persons of NGOs.
* 260 visits were made during the year and
5066 cases were examined, which included
460 ANC, 242 child immunization and 386
RTI cases. Total contraceptive users were
1060, which include 456 women using pills,
816 condom users and 88 IUD users.
Prem Jyoti, a unit of the Emmanuel Hospital
Association (EHA) has been working amongst
the Malto tribals of Jharkhand focusing on their
health needs. Since April 2005, Prem Jyoti has
been focussing on outreach work through a
network of Community Health Volunteers and
peripheral clinics in 140 target villages and
strengthening referral services to the 15 bedded
secondary care hospitals in the project
emphasising on training and empowerment of
the community to tackle common health
problems. The overall goal is to transform the
Maltos into a healthy community. The PFI has
been supporting this initiative since April 2005.
1. To build the capacity of the communities to
take care of their own health at the village &
cluster levels.
2. To improve the Reproductive & Child Health
of the target community.
a. To ensure safe motherhood and prevent
unwanted pregnancies
through
contraceptive use.
b. To reduce the incidence of Reproductive
Tract Infections, STD including HIV in
women
c. To reduce the morbidity and mortality due
to malaria in the target area by 50% (as
this is a major contributing factor to
perinatal and childhood deaths).
d. To provide secondary care facilities at an
affordable cost especially for
emergencies including obstetric care.
3. To improve the health awareness of the
community regarding the major health
problems that affect women and children,
namely, safe motherhood and family
planning, nutrition of under fives, vaccine-
preventable diseases, malaria, diarrhoea,
and tuberculosis.
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The project has two components: an outreach
programme providing primary health care to
16000 Malto tribals living in 140 villages divided
into 11 clusters through 11 peripheral clinics each
covering 10-20 villages and a 15 bedded
secondary level hospital facility to deal with the
emergencies.
1) The area was divided into 11 clusters and
the Cluster Health Committees were formed
in all clusters to strengthen the community
participation.
2) During the last year, 108 Community Health
Volunteers (CHVs), three Community Health
Supervisors (CHSs) and twelve Community
Health Guides (CHGs) were recruited and
trained. The CHGs were trained on use of
.simple oral medicines, collection of vital
statistics, growth monitoring etc.
3) The baseline survey showed 90% illiteracy,
5% ANC coverage, 97% home delivery, and
24% primary immunization coverage in the
project areas. Contraceptive prevalence rate
was found to be very low at 18.2%. Only 28%
of women were aware of RTI/STI symptoms
and 18% were aware of HIV/AIDS.
4) The project team has been networking with
the government representatives and other
NGOs. An immunization campaign in
collaboration with UNICEF was carried out
and the DDT spraying programme was done
in collaboration with the government.
\\facc'nes ana otner essenWa\\ orugs 'Were
procured from the district government
hospital.
5) Peripheral clinics were conducted by the
medical team in the community thrice a week
supporting the work of the CHVs. The CHVs
were actively involved in bringing pregnant
women for check-ups and children'"below five
years for immunization. They also motivated
women for Copper-T insertion. The TB
patients had very good compliance, as
they were able to get their drugs at these
centres.
6) During the last year, 2883 women were
treated at the mobile clinic, 419 pregnant
women were seen, 239 women had three
ANC check ups, 126 deliveries were done
by TBAs, 1972 cases of malaria were treated
by CHVs, 184 Copper-Ts were inserted and
524 children received complete
immunization.
7) During the year, the project was visited by
many national and international NGOs. A
number of nursing and medical students,
other NGO personnel and Dais from other
NGOs were trained by the NGO. A V-Sat
has been installed for effective
communication.
8) A new scheme was announced for Maltos to
encourage antenatal check up and hospital
delivery. In this scheme, all pregnant women,
who have undergone a minimum of three
antenatal check ups would be charged only
Rs. 100/- for hospital delivery even if it
involves a cesarean section.
9) The school education programme started
with a special nine-day training of staff in
methods of health education suitable for
school students. The group prepared a !set
of visual aids (hand drawn and coloured) to
be used for group health education. There
were 5 participants from other NGOs in the
area.
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Capacity Building/Training
The Regional Training and Resource
Development Centres (RTRDCs) have been
set up by the Population Foundation of India in
different states of India as a process to
decentralize training on RH issues and build
capacity in the NGO sector on issues related to
reproductive health. In the framework, which
follows a cascading model of training, capacities
of Master Trainers of state level NGOs (RTRDC)
are built on goal setting, resource mobilization
and implementation of the RCH programmes.
The strategy then followed by RTRDC is
translation of the module in local languages
followed by a series of six-day training workshops
for NGO personnel where Master Trainers are
the resource persons. In addition to resource
persons within the organization, the RTRDCs are
able to mobilize other resource persons in the
state from both the NGOs and the government
sector.
The Foundation had initiated 13 RTRDCs in 10
states of India with various NGOs / institutions.
Seven were continuing from the previous year
and three RTRDCs reached a completion during
the year. These were SHED Maharashtra, PRC
Rajasthan and AID Jharkhand. Currently four
RTRDCs namely CREATE and India Literary
Board (llB), U.p., IHMP Maharashtra and
Agragamee, Orissa are functional.
During the period April 2005 to March 2006, 34
training programmes were conducted by
RTRDCs in which 729 participants from 402
NGOs were trained.
As an offshoot of this programme, the
Foundation is planning to take up implementation
of some selected initiatives on Reproductive
Health involving both the RTRDCs and the
NGOs trained by them.
The workshops on Behavioural Change
Communication (BCC) were conducted by the
Population Foundation of India in association with
the Church of North India in 26 Dioceses spread
over 10 states such as Uttar Pradesh, Punjab,
West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa,
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Assam, Rajasthan and in
three Union Territories. The objectives of the
workshops were to (i) train health personnel of
all the 26 Dioceses of CNI on Behavioural
Change Communication relating to health,
population and social development, (ii) to build
their capacities to bring about the needed
behaviour change, and (iii) to develop
communication skills of the health personnel. No
cost extension was given to the project till June
2005.
Twenty five Dioceses level workshops, covering
ten states and two union territories, were
organized with the help of master trainers and
the Diocesan staff. The training was imparted
to a total of 1,122 personnel on .Behavioual
Change Communication by CN!. The workshop
at the Andaman and Nicobar islands had to be
cancelled on account of natural disaster. The
Church of North India submitted the entire
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workshop report and the project has been
completed.
The Population Foundation of India (PFI) in
association with the Centre for Media Studies
(CMS) initiated the training programmes on
Management-cum-Behavioural
Change
Communication for the NGOs serving the
communities in NCR of Delhi. The main
objectives of the training programmes were to
enhance conceptual understanding and develop
skills of the NGO personnel for effective
communication and operational management
and to understand the management aspects of
Reproductive and Child Health projects and to
increase efficiency in project management and
implementation with feedback, need assessment
and area specific analysis.
To start with, a need assessment survey was
conducted at two levels - for field level workers
and for middle level managers of NGOs working
in and around Delhi on Reproductive and Child
Health (RCH)/Family Planning (FP) issues
before finalization of the course curriculum. A
database of NGOs working in and around Delhi
on RCH/FP was developed.
professionals were trained.
A concurrent evaluation, with a sample size of
20-25 participants from 15 NGOs who attended
BCC and management training programmes,
was carried out to understand how the
participants have been implementing their
learning skills in their project areas.
The CMS completed the training programmes
successfully and the final report was prepared.
The evaluation revealed that the programmes
enabled the participants to keep abreast with
latest updates on reproductive and child health
issues and provided an excellent course structure
to meet professional needs.
The Mi~istry of Health & Family Welfare,
Government of India had initiated the Mother
NGO (MNGO) scheme under the Reproductive
and Child Health programme. The Government
of India established institutions known as
"Regional Resource Centres" (RRCs) with
During the three year project period, the CMS
conducted 20 training programmes on
Behavioural Change Communication (BCC) and
trained around 370 personnel from various
NGOs serving the communities in NCR of Delhi
on RCH related issues. Fifteen training
programmes (30 days) on various management
issues for middle/senior level managers of Delhi
based NGOs were conducted and 273
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financial assistance from the UNFPA to provide
assistance and support the state NGO
Committee, Mother NGOs, Service NGOs, Field
NGOs and other stakeholders in programme
management and the RCH technical
interventions. The RRCs are expected to work
closely with the Apex Resource Centre (ARC)
situated at the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, which gives technical support to RRCs
and the State NGO Coordinators (SNGOC). The
PFI worked as the Regional Resource Centre for
Bihar and Chhattisgarh states.
. Support for project development, training in
programme and technical areas,
dissemination of relevant training and
communication material.
. Creating and facilitating access to database
of technical and human resources relevant
to family planning and RCH interventions.
. Conducting periodic field visits for technical
assistance and training needs assessment
and follow-up of effectiveness of inputs.
. Providing a platform for advocacy to facilitate
GO-NGO networking.
. Providing inputs to Gol to enable policy
modification / formulation for NGO
programmes.
. A network of institutions across the country
capable of providing high quality technical
assistance to a range of NGOs working to
improve RCH as per the goals of the NPP-
2000.
. Closer linkage between the State
Governments and the MNGOs/SNGO at
the state and district levels.
. Increased access of NGOs to district level
data, training and communication material,
and information on policies and programmes.
. Development of NGO resource directory for
RCH issues at the state level.
. State government and Gol receive inputs for
mid course correction and policy
modification.
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The Government of India sanctioned the project
in February 2005 and after a preparatory phase
of two months, the RRC was fully functional from
April 2005. The Apex Resource Centre oriented
the newly appointed RRC staff and the strategic
plan was prepared for RRC. The PFI opened two
separate offices in Bihar and Chhattisgarh, as
they were geographically non-contiguous states.
all the 16 districts of Chhattisgarh, were
organized. The participants were district and
block government officials, grassroot workers
and NGOs. The PFI-RRC also organized state
level GO-NGO workshops in Bihar and'
Chhattisgarh. The workshop was an effort to
build partnership and collaboration between the
Government and the MNGOs.
"'
During the year April 2005 - March 2006, a
Training of Trainers (TOT) and Baseline Data
The guidelines for the preparatory phase
activities and budget expenditure, which
Processing Workshops were organized to orient MNGOs undertook were also developed by the
the MNGOs on revised guidelines of the MNGO
PFI-RRC in collaboration with the Government
scheme, the RCH perspectives and to facilitate
of Chhattisgarh. Advocacy for formation and
understanding and use of baseline survey (BLS)
package for the project in both the states. The
MNGOs then trained the FNGOs in Bihar and
registration of District RCH/Health Society in
Bihar and Chhattisgarh was undertaken with
district officials. District RCH/Health Societies
Chhattisgarh, which were monitored by the RRC in Bihar and Chhattisgarh are in place now.
and were provided technical inputs. The RRC
also validated the BLS data in the un-served and
The RRC was invited by the Governments of
underserved areas and helped the MNGOs in
project formulation for getting grant in aid from
Gol.
Bihar and Chhattisgarh for doing the field
appraisal of the remaining 16 districts and two
districts respectively not covered by the MNGO
scheme. The appraisal of 24 NGOs was
The PFI-RRC organized a state level thematic conducted by the RRC in November 2005. The
workshop and five regional thematic workshops
on Planned Parenthood in Bihar to build common
RRC provided data on un-served and under-
served areas to the state government in Bihar.
perspective on the issue of family planning for
NGOs and government stakeholders. The first
edition of the newsletter 'Nai Kiran' in English
and Hindi on the theme of 'Planned Parenthood'
It also provided inputs on developing the District
Action Plan in the state. The RRC also undertook
field visits to four Best Practice Centres in Bihar.
A document on the field visits to Best Practice
was released at the workshop. Four regional Centres is being compiled. The PFI-RRC
thematic workshops on 'Reducing Maternal
Deaths through Institutional Delivery', covering
developed user friendly RRC web pages for wide
dissemination of RRC activities.
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Advocacy and Communication
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national level campaign against Sex Selection
and Pre-Birth Elimination of Females in the states
The decline of Child Sex Ratio (CSR) in the age
group of 0-6 years is one of the serious
demographic issues in India. While the CSR has
been a matter of concern for several years, it is
the 2001 Census that set the alarm bells ringing.
Between 1991 and 2001, the number of girls per
thousand boys aged six or younger, in India, has
decreased from 945 to 927. The decline in CSR
of Rajasthan and Orissa in the year 2003. Seven
more states (Haryana, Punjab, Himachal
Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, U.P and
Uttaranchal) were added to the campaign in the
year 2004 with a strategy to conduct workshops
has been particularly dramatic in the states of
Punjab (from 875 to 793), Haryana (from 879 to
820), Gujarat (from 928 to 878) and Delhi (from
915 to 865).
with the corporate sector/industry and the
Members of the Legislative Assemblies. The
main objectives of the campaign were:
./ Orienting Members of the Legislative
Assemblieswith the correct perc~ptionof the
situation of the issuesof female foeticide
The Population Foundation of India with support
from Plan International, India had launched a
./ Addressing the organized corporate sector
and industrial associations to create
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awareness within their organizations about
the importance of the girl child
area at any time was also added to the campaign
in these two states.
./ Sensitizing society at large on the issue of
declining sex ratio and creating a positive
attitude towards the rights of the girl child
./ Advocating the scope and content of the
PNDT Act with an attempt to prevent and
curb the rampant practice of sex
determination tests and sex selection that
lead to female foeticide
./ Building up a strong group of supporters
through workshops against sex selection
./ Involving and promoting networks of non-
governmental organizations in order to
. develop a gender sensitive programme
implementing strategy for the issue of sex
selection based on gender sensitive policy
environment.
The states of Delhi and Andhra Pradesh were
further added to the campaign as part of
awareness building of other stakeholders like the
media, school teachers and medical
professionals apart from sensitizing the
Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs)
and the corporate sector/industry. The objective
of advocating registration of births. deaths,
marriages and pregnancies for effective
monitoring of the demographic scenario of any
With the help of three programme partners.
Aravali Vikas Sangathan, New Delhi; Datamation
Consultants Pvt Ltd, Delhi and Centre for
Women Development Studies (CAPF). New
Delhi, PFI carried out intensive campaign against
pre-birth elimination of females in nine districts
of Delhi. The main objectives of the campaign
were to educate and motivate the youth to
spread awareness on female foeticide through
traditional media. handouts, posters etc and to
conduct awareness generation and capacity
building workshops for students and teachers
etc. The main target audience were the
adolescents, young people, school/college
students and teachers etc. The activities included
debates, role-plays. poster competitions. online
essay competitions, quiz, slogan writing etc. A
website www.indiafemalefoeticide.org on female
foeticide was developed and was regularly
updated by Datamation Foundation, as part of
the project activities. A document on the
entire campaign was brought out as a PFI
publication.
Two docudramas were made on female foeticide
and birth registration in Hindi as a part of the
mass media campaign. These docudramas have
been dubbed in five regional languages. namely,
Punjabi. Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya and Telugu and
the CDs were made.
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As part of the project activities, the following workshops were organized during the year under
report:
un
b~
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The PFI in association with Founding Core Group
consisting of Sal Panchayat, Centre for Health,
Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness
(CHETNA), Centre for Development and
Population Activity (CEDPA), Child in Need
Institute (CIN!), Community Aid and
Sponsorship Programme (CASP), MAMTA.
National Foundation of India (NFl), Pathfinder
International, Plan International India, Population
Council, hosted the Secretariat of the Alliance
for the first two years (April 2004-April 2006).
The objectives of the Secretariat were (j) to
address the sexual and reproductive health
needs of the young people, (ii) to compile,
document and share experiences from all over
the country with NGOs, Government and other
stakeholders Wi) to impact policy development
and programme implementation through
experience gained at the grassroots level and
(iv) to advocate that this group is a growing
population with distinct needs that can be met
and addressed effectively.
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The advocacy programmes by the Secretariat
were carried out at the state level and at the
national level. Around five hundred
representatives from twenty States took part in
the first National Level Consultation in May 2004
at New Delhi organized by the Bal Panchayat of
CASP-Plan, Delhi and supported by a consortium
of agencies including the Ministry of Youth
Affairs and Sports and Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare, Government of India. The
proceedings of the consultation were brought out
as a publication and widely disseminated.
The project Advocacy on Young Adults'
Reproductive and Sexual Health (YARSH)
Issues in Bihar and Jharkhand is being
undertaken by the PFI with the support from the
The State Level Consultations (SLCs) were
organized in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat,
Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar
Pradesh, Uttaranchal Orissa, West Bengal,
D~lhi, Punjab, Jammu, Meghalaya, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Kerala. A
summary of the recommendations emerging out
of the state level consultations was also brought
out as a publication.
As a follow up of the State Level Consultations,
activities were taken up like development of
yuvamaitri website www.yuvamaitri.net.
celebration of international youth day,
participation at the two-day national youth
parliament on HIV / AIDS and other global
movement for children etc.
In its second year, the Secretariat carried out
the two major activities - mapping of activities
(related to young people) of the members of the
Alliance and the documentation on promising
practices. The Secretariat has been handed
over to one of the founding core group members,
CHETNA in May 2006.
Packard Foundation. The project aims to build
supportive environment for population
stabilization by meeting reproductive and sexual
health needs of young adults.
This advocacy initiative was implemented in two
districts each of Bihar (Gaya and Vaishalj) and
Jharkhand (Ranchi and Hazaribagh). The main
objectives of the project were to orient
politicians, bureaucrats, public-private health
care providers and Panchayati Raj Institutions
on YARSH issues towards population
stabilization; to prepare district action plans on
YARSH services based on the district level
interventions and to suggest recommendations
to the state governments to incorporate them in
the State Health Policy and Plan; and to
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document and disseminate lessons learnt and
the best practices from the field for advocacy
on YARSH issues.
The project completed its first phase in
Jharkhand in March 2005. Advocacyworkshops
were organized at block, district and state levels
in Hazaribagh and Ranchi districts of Jharkhand.
The District Action Plan was prepared and
finalized with Govt. departments, donors, NGOs
and professionals involved with YARSH issues
in the state. The state level dissemination
workshop was also organized in March 2005.
Looking at the need for follow-up of upcoming
issues, the project has been extended in
Jharkhand. The YARSH Jharkhand team re-
started the office in January 2006. A two-
member team has started working from January
2006 as a Technical Support Team to the
department of Youth Affairs and Sports. The
team has started the process of policy
formulation for Government of Jharkhand by
constituting
the subcommittees
and
commissioning status papers on thematic policy
issues and the establishment of Youth Resource
Centre (YRC). Draft by-laws for YRC were made
and shared with the department. A needs
assessment exercise was conducted with about
365 senior and junior NCC cadets. The team
has helped the department of Youth Affairs and
Sports to develop a concept note and a proposal
for including ASRH and Life Skills Education in
the NCC and NYK curriculum.
districts of Vaishali and Gaya was carried out.
All the block level workshops were completed in
Gaya and Vaishali. The report on advocacy
workshops and the survey report on Adolescent
Reproductive and Sexual Health both held at the
block level have been compiled. Issue based
status papers have been commissioned in Bihar.
The team has initiated a dialogue with the Youth
Ministry in Bihar towards developing youth policy
in Bihar and has also interacted with the District
Collectors of Vaishali and Gaya for further
support. The district level workshops have also
been proposed at Vaishali and Gaya in August
2006 and a state level dissemination workshop
is proposed to be held in September 2006 at
Patna.
The project Advocacy for Perspective Building
on ICPD and National Population Policy 2000
was undertaken by the PFI with support from
the Packard Foundation. This two year project
was started in August 2004 and is being
The second phase of the project activities in
Gaya and Vaishali districts of Bihar started in
April 2005. The survey on Adolescent
Reproductive and Sexual Health concerns in the
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Speaker, Shri Uday Narayan Chowdhary, it was
decided that a daylong orientation programme
on Health, Population and Social Development
Issues for Members of the Legislative Assembly,
Bihar would be held on August 5, 2006 at Bihar
Vidhan Sabha, Patna.
Advocacy with Bureaucrats: An orientation
programme in collaboration with Administrative
Training Institute (ATI), Bihar was organized for
a group of administrative officials including
probationers and in-service senior officers in July
2005. The first batch of training with in-service
..
IAS officers on Population, Gender and Health
was organized in November 2005. The training
extended up to December 2006. The project aims
at perspective building on critical issues in
population, reproductive health and reproductive
rights among key stakeholders towards
was organized in collaboration with National
Institute for Academic Research, Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration
(LBSNAA).
influencing policies and programmes. The project
is currently being implemented in Bihar and
Jharkhand and at the national level.
Advocacy with Judiciary: a two-day training
programme on Gender Discrimination,
Population Policy and Rights of Women for High
The project includes advocacy initiatives with
states and other stakeholders consisting of
Judiciary, Media, Bureaucrats, Elected
Court Judges was organized in April 2006 in
collaboration with National Judicial Academy
(NJA), Bhopal.
Representatives, Corporates and NGOs for a
sustained implementation of ICPD programme
of action and National Population Policy 2000.
During the period under report, the following
project activities were carried out through various
partners:
Advocacy with Media: a daylong sensitization
program for journalists was organized in April
2005 by Press Institute of India, New Delhi on
the theme of population, gender and
development. Four regional workshops in
Jharkhand and one in Bihar were organized for
Advocacy with Elected Representatives: In
association with A N Sinha Institute, Patna, a
two-day training programme was organized for
the Zila Pramukhs of 13 districts and
chairpersons of two municipal corporations of
Bihar in October 2005. In furtherance of the
meeting with the Bihar Legislative Assembly
journalists and stringers in collaboration with
Manthan, Ranchi and BVHA, Patna. A manual
for journalistic writing on health and development
was also prepared by Manthan in Hindi. E'ight
journalists from the participants at the regional
advocacy workshops in Bihar and Jharkhand
have been selected for the PFI-Manthan Media
Fellowship.
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The Government of India sanctioned the project
in February 2005 and after a preparatory phase
of two months, the RRC was fully functional from
April 2005. The Apex Resource Centre oriented
the newly appointed RRC staff and the strategic
plan was prepared for RRC. The PFI opened two
separate offices in Bihar and Chhattisgarh, as
they were geographically non-contiguous states.
During the year April 2005 - March 2006, a
Training of Trainers (TOT) and Baseline Data
Processing Workshops were organized to orient
the MNGOs on revised guidelines of the MNGO
scheme, the RCH perspectives and to facilitate
understanding and use of baseline survey (BLS)
package for the project in both the states. The
MNGOs then trained the FNGOs in Bihar and
Chhattisgarh, which were monitored by the RRC
and were provided technical inputs. The RRC
also validated the BLS data in the un-served and
underserved areas and helped the MNGOs in
project formulation for getting grant in aid from
Gol.
The PFI-RRC organized a state level thematic
workshop and five regional thematic workshops
on Planned Parenthood in Bihar to build common
perspective on the issue of family planning for
NGOs and government stakeholders. The first
edition of the newsletter 'Nai Kiran' in English
and Hindi on the theme of 'Planned Parenthood'
was released at the workshop. Four regional
thematic workshops on 'Reducing Maternal
Deaths through Institutional Delivery', covering
all the 16 districts of Chhattisgarh, were
organized. The participants were district and
block government officials, grassroot workers
and NGOs. The PFI-RRC also organized state
level GO-NGO workshops in Bihar and'
Chhattisgarh. The workshop was an effort to
build partnership and collaboration between the
Government and the MNGOs.
The guidelines for the preparatory phase
activities and budget expenditure, which
MNGOs undertook were also developed by the
PFI-RRC in collaboration with the Government
of Chhattisgarh. Advocacy for formation and
registration of District RCH/Health Society in
Bihar and Chhattisgarh was undertaken with
district officials. District RCH/Health Societies
in Bihar and Chhattisgarh are in place now.
The RRC was invited by the Governments of
Bihar and Chhattisgarh for doing the field
appraisal of the remaining 16 districts and two
districts respectively not covered by the MNGO
scheme. The appraisal of 24 NGOs was
conducted by the RRC in November 2005. The
RRC provided data on un-served and under-
served areas to the state government in Bihar.
It also provided inputs on developing the District
Action Plan in the state. The RRC also undertook
field visits to four Best Practice Centres in Bihar.
A document on the field visits to Best Practice
Centres is being compiled. The PFI-RRC
developed user friendly RRC web pages for wide
dissemination of RRC activities.
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Advocacy with Corporate Sector: The GIVE
Foundation, Mumbai completed the study titled
Investing in Young People's Health: Issues and
Opportunities. The first regional workshop on
Investing in Young People: Opportunities for
Corporates was held in Jamshedpur on February
23, 2006. The second regional meeting was held
on March 27, 2006 in Delhi.
Advocacy on RCH II: The PFI supported the
Centre for Health and Social Justice towards
building creative partnerships for fulfilling
reproductive health needs and rights in the
country. The support aims to build regional
partnerships in the selected states and at the
national level.
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p
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issue of Missing Girls in two districts each of
Haryana (Ambala and Kurukshetra) and Punjab
(Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala). The main
objective of the campaign was to transform
The programme was initiated by the PFI in 2004
under UNFPA's Country Programme(CP) - 6,
which draws its philosophy from the goals and
the Programme of Action (PoA) of the
International Conference on Population and
Development (ICPD), and the National
Population Policy (NPP) 2000. The objectives of
the programme were CO to assess achievement,
identify challenges, constraints and opportunities
and formulate lessons learnt in the
implementation of the ICPD PoA and
recommend corrective strategies for the next
10 years, (ii) to build supportive policy
and programme environment for improved quality
of care through advocacy initiatives, and Ciii) to
promote issue based advocacy initiatives through
non-government organizations.
on
Under UNFPA's Country Programme (CP) - 6,
the PFI launched an advocacy campaign on the
an
'advocacy into action'. The PFllaunched several
advocacy initiatives at the village, block as well
as the district levels in association with the
Voluntary Health Association of Punjab (VHAP).
The PFI identified senior government officials,
district appropriate authorities, medical
fraternities, media, NGOs, CBOs, PRI members,
mahila mandals etc as the key stakeholders to
address the issue on Missing Girls.
on
re
The PFI initiated issue based advocacy for
strengthening Quality of Care of reproductive
health services in 2004. A joint consultation
meeting to disseminate the findings and
recommendations, which emerged out of the four
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consultation workshops held in 2004 was
organized on July 2005 with the key
stakeholders. Discussions were held as to how
the recommendations could be effectively
integrated into the ongoing projects/
programmes on health and other population
related issues. Based on the experience of the
NGO partners, future strategies are being
evolved. A handbook on Quality of Care has
been brought out as a PFI publication.
project, Orissa and the Population Foundation
of India.
The Population Foundation of India implemented
a project on Reducing Maternal Mortality trough
Advocacy in Koraput, Nabarangapur, Rayagada
and Malkangiri districts of undivided Koraput in
Orissa. The project was supported by the Orissa
State Health and FamilyWelfare Society, UNFPA
Integrated Population and Development (IPD)
The overall goal of the project was to create a
supportive policy and programme environment
for reduction of maternal mortality and promote
safe motherhood in the State of Orissa. The
objectives of the project were en to sensitize
government, public-private health care providers,
PRls/ NGOs/CBOs/SHGs etc to address
issues of maternal mortality and safe
motherhood by building a supportive
environment at the district level, (ii)to document
the outcomes and recommendations and prepare
the District Advocacy Plan (DAP) through
district-level workshops, (iii) to advocate at the
state-level the District Advocacy Plan and
develop a State Advocacy Plan (SAP) through
consultative process for a period of two years,
(iv) to organize the consultation meeting with
key government officials to suggest th. e
integration of the findings that emerged from
various levels of workshops into the present
health strategy of the State, and (v) formulation
of an implementationstrategy/monitoring plan
of the DAP for two years
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Government of Orissa, national and international
organizations and media were present at
the workshop. The Principal Secretary, Health
and Family Welfare Department, Government of
Orissa inaugurated the workshop. The advocacy
kits were prepared and disseminated widely. The
advocacy workshop report on Reducing Maternal
Mortality in Orissa held both at the state and
district levels was brought out as a PFI
publication in English and Oriya.
To start with, an experience sharing meeting was
organized to share various experiences on
reduction of maternal mortality. A background
paper on maternal mortality - concepts and
issues based on review of literature was
prepared. Two block level consultation meetings
were held in Padampur block of Rayagada district
and Dasmantpur block of Koraput district. The
detailed reports of the meetings were sent to
UNFPA, and concerned officials from state,
district and block levels. The block level reports
were translated into Oriya for district and block
level programme functionaries.
Four district level workshops were organized.
The reports of the workshops were prepared and
shared with the government. A state level
advocacy workshop on 'Reducing Maternal
Mortality in Orissa' was organized in
Bhubaneswar, Orissa on April 28-29, 2005. The
objective of the workshop was to create a
supportive policy and an environment conducive
to the reduction of maternal mortality and
promotion of safe motherhood in Orissa. Sixty
persons representing senior officials of the
The PFI has been doing community radio
programmes since the year 2000. In the past,
the PFI has successfully launched and completed
community radio programmes in the states of
Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,
Haryana and Bihar. The PFI launched three
community radio interventions in the states of
Chhattisgarh and Orissa. The main objective
of the PFI's community radio interventions
is to empower the community on various
issues of population, health and social
development.
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The Population Foundation of India (PFI) in
collaboration with Agragamee, a local non-
governmental organization in Rayagada district,
started a community radio programme titled
Ujala in the six backward and tribal districts of
south Orissa in October 2004. The programme
was implemented in the districts of Koraput,
Malkangiri, Rayagada, Kalahandi, Nuapada and
Naharangpur, where the Desia-dialect (a
common tribal dialect) was spoken. The PFI
conducted a baseline survey to identify 27 broad
issues of the region. Fifty two scripts were
generated in the Desia dialect from the
scriptwriter's workshop. The PFI recorded the
scripts in drama format in a digital mode. The
PFI purchased 30 minutes airtime from AIR within
the primetime slot. The programme went on air
every Sunday from 6.1Opm to 6.40 pm as part
of the popular "Chaiti Janha" programme. The
PFI along with Agragamee formed a network of
30 NGOs to take the programme to the village
level. These networking NGOs formed listener's
clubs in their respective project areas. Over 200
listener's clubs were formed. Each club consisted
of 20-25 members from all age groups. The PFI
distributed free radio sets to the clubs. The
response to the programme has been
overwhelming and over 4000 letters have been
received from listeners. The first phase of the
52-episode series came to an end in November
2005. Buoyed by the response from listeners,
the PFI repeated the broadcast of the
programme in November 2005 with some minor
changes. The repeat broadcast is going on
smoothly.
For the first phase of the radio programmes, an
evaluation study was conducted to assess the
impact of the programme. The study revealed
that the programme was a learning experience
for the people. The content, format and language
of the programme were well appreciated by the
people.
Based on the findings/recommendations/
suggestions of the evaluation study, a new
proposal has been developed to sustain the
ongoing efforts with highlights like (j) total
involvement of the community in the radio
programmes, (ii) training of youth in radio
production like script writing, recording dramas
and running of community radio programmes, Gii)
development of advocacy materials to support
the issues addressed through various
programmes and organization of events at the
village level to promote the programmes etc.
The PFI started a 52 episode community radio
programme, Ukia in collaboration with an NGO
called Manav Ka/yan Pratisthan (MKP) based
at Sambalpur. The programme was implemented
in the districts of Bargarh, Sonepur, Jharsuguda,
Deogarh, Baudh and Bolangir around Sambalpur
in western Orissa. The main objective of the
programme was to empower the community on
the issues of population, health and social
development issues through a series of 52
episodes in the Sambalpuri dialect speaking
areas. The programme was officially launched
in January 2005 by Chief Ministerof Orissa. The
52 episode series was recorded in digital format.
The PFI purchased airtime from AIR in the prime
time slot. The programme went on air ev~ry
Monday from 7.30pm to 8.00pm. A network of
30 NGOs was formed to carry the message on
to the village level. About 150 listener's clubs
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were formed and free radio sets were distributed.
The programme has been well received by the
listeners. The 52 episode series came to an end
in February 2006.
An evaluation study has been carried out. The
study has shown that the programme has been
well received by the people and there is a
demand to sustain the program 'in the future.
Based on the findings of the evaluation study, a
new proposal has been developed to sustain the
ongoing efforts.
The Population Foundation of India in association
with the implementing NGO, Bastar True Light
Samiti (BTLS), Jagdalpur launched a community
radio program titled Ujhar in the Halbi dialect in
Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh. The 26 episode series
was developed in the Halbi dialect on various
issues of health and social development. The first
phase of the program which started in 2004 came
to an end in February 2005. Encouraged by the
response to the programme, the PFI started the
repeat broadcast of the programme in April 2005.
Four new episodes were added replacing four
old episodes. To address the letters from the
listeners, the PFI started a weekly programme
titled Patrotar in addition to the ongoing series.
A network of NGOs was formed and about 100
listener's clubs were formed to propagate the
program at the village level. The repeat
broadcast came to an end in November 2005.
The PFI has received over 2000 letters during
the course of the repeat broadcast.
To assess the impact of the programme, an
evaluation study was conducted by a research
agency. The study revealed that the programmes
were well received by the people and there is
demand for continuation of the programme in a
new format with more involvement of the
community. Based on the findings of the study,
the PFI is in the process of developing a new
proposal.
This assignment to develop an innovative
communication strategy for promoting family
welfare programmes in the EAG states. had been
given to the Population Foundation of India by
the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The
objectives of the study were (j) to understand
the reasons/factors for the EAG states lagging
behind in family planning programme
performance from a communication perspective
(ii) to generate a qualitative data base for
designing an innovative communication strategy
for family planning in the EAG states through
literature review, IEC material review and
formative research (interviews and case studies),
and (iii) to serve as an input for the Department
of Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare on IEC/BCC vision and strategy under
RCH-II in the EAG states.
A series of meetings were held to carry out
literature/IEC material review and the formative
research. The key findings from the field and
the draft strategy were presented and discussed
at the round table meeting held in October 2004.
A one day national workshop on 'Strategic
Communication for Effective Change and
Empowerment for Family Welfare and RCH in
EAG States was organized on March 22, 2005
to disseminate the findings of the study.
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Based on the suggestions and recommendations
of the national workshop and the core group
meeting, a project proposal on 'Innovative
Communication Strategies for Family Welfare
Programmes in the EAG States' was developed
and shared with the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare (MoHFW) in May 2005. The PFI made
a presentation on the proposal to the Ministry
in November 2005.
A document on the formative research study
conducted by the PFI in the eight EAG states
has been brought out as a PFI publication and
has been disseminated to the partners.
shown on Doordarshan in January 2006, as a
promotional tool for the telecast of Kinara. The
film has received good media coverage. The PFI
informed all partners in various states about the
telecast timings of the film. The PFI has received
good feedback on the content of the film from
the partners.
The Population Foundation of India undertook the
project on Impact of Media Coverage on
Stigma and Discrimination related to HIV /
AIDS with support from UNDp, New Delhi. The
project was implemented at the national level
and the states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and
In association with Eleanora Images, New Delhi,
the Foundation undertook the production of a
tele-film titled, Kinara on No-Scalpel Vasectomy
(NSV) and three promotional spots (promos).
The objectives of the film and the promos were
to sensitize and make the audience aware of
NSV and to bring about behavioural and
attitudinal changes towards male participation
in contraception, and an overall demand driven
approach for men to opt for the easiest method
of contraception of NSV within the cultural
context.
A committee was constituted to review the
scripts of the tele-film and the promos. There
were three versions of the tele-film (27 minutes,
15 minutes and 10 minutes) and the promos (60
seconds, 30 seconds and 10 seconds), Copies
of the film/spots were made and sent to all PFI
partners, government officials and the film
division. Kinara went on air on January 20,2006
on Doordarshan. The promos of NSV were
Karnataka. The objectives of the project were
scanning and analysis of print and television
media reportage on HIV/AIDS in the states of
Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka and
printing of a resource book on media and HIV/
AIDS based on the feedback received from the
state level and regional level consultations.
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Tostart with, a project team was set up with the
veteran journalist, Ms Usha Rai as Coordinator
and Ms RimjhimJain as Project Assistant. Three
partners were identified in the states of Punjab,
Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. Media scanning
and analysis of print and television media
reportage on HIV/AIDS were completed. Two
state level consultations on media and HIV/ AIDS
were organized in Chandigarh and Lucknowand
three regional consultations on Media and HIV/
AIDS were organized in Chandigarh, Lucknow
and Bangalore. A national consultation on
"Media and HIV/ AIDS" with representation from
key multilateral and bilateral agencies, state
positive people's network, international and
national NGOs working on HIV/AIDS was
organized on November 30,2005 in Delhi. Based
on the feedback received from the state level
and regional level consultations, a resource book
on HIV/AIDS in News - Journalists as
Catalysts has been developed in English. The
printed resource book was disseminated at the
national workshop. The English resource book
was translated into Hindi, Kannada and Punjabi
for wider dissemination. The PFI also printed the
Media and HIV/AIDS training manual prepared
by PFI/FAITH Health Care. The printing of
. vernacular versions of the resource book is
underway.
The Population Foundation of India with support
from the International Planned Parenthood
Federation (IPPF) implemented the project on
Population and Development Media
Fellowships in the states of Gujarat and
Maharashtra.
Media Fellowships were
announced for journalists of print media, who
belong to the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra,
jointly by the PFI and the International Planned
Parenthood Federation (IPPF), New Delhi. The
objective of this Fellowship programme was to
encourage media persons to highlight population,
health and development issues in mainstream
media in order to form public opinion and
influence policy decisions. The veteran journalist,
Ms Usha Rai coordinated the fellowship
programme. The IPPF extended financial support
worth Rs 2,50,000.00 for 5 selected Fellows from
the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The state
level workshops were organized in both the
states by Ms Usha Rai at which the Fellowship
program was announced. Five Fellows were
selected based on their profiles and experience.
All the five Fellows have completed their
committed assignments and have submitted all
the articles to PFI. The translation of the articles
is underway, which is proposed to be compiled
in booklet form.
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During 2003-2004, the PFI in collaboration with
the Population Reference Bureau, Washington
D.C had published chartbooks on HIV/AIDS in
India, HIV/ AIDS in Karnataka and six fact sheets
for the six HIV/AIDS high prevalence states.
Based on the encouraging feedback on these
publications the following bilingual chartbooks
(in English and regional languages) were
prepared and disseminated, during the year
under report.
Facts, Figures and Response to HIV/AIDS in
Andhra Pradesh: The bilingual Andhra Pradesh
chartbook (Teluguand English) was frinalizedand
printed in consultation with the Andhra Pradesh
State AIDS Control Society. The chartbook
was distributed among the users in December
2005.
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HIV/AIDS in Delhi: Meeting the Challenge:
The bilingual (English and Hindi) chartbook
describes the HIV/AIDS situation in Delhi and
how the state responds to the situation. On
December 1, 2005, as part of the World AIDS
Day programmes, the Chief Minister of Delhi
released the chartbook. The Health Minister of
Delhi and senior officials of the Delhi government
and various dignitaries were present at the
function.
Tamil Nadu Responds to HIV/AIDS: This
publication was prepared bilingually (English and
Tamil) to reach a wider audience. On December
1, 2005, as part of the Tamil Nadu AIDS Control
Society's programme on World AIDS Day, the
Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
released the chartbook. The Health Minister of
Tamil Nadu, peoples representatives, important
religious leaders and senior officials were present
at the meeting.
All the three chartbooks have been distributed
among the users. Feedback received through the
evaluation forms distributed along with the
chartbooks have been encouraging. The data
presentation and technical write up has been well
appreciated.
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On the eve of the World Population Day, the
Population Foundation of India organized a
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programme on Gender and Human Rights around
Population and Health Issues at the India
International Centre on Friday, July 8, 2005. Dr
Syeda Hameed, Member, Planning Commission
was the Chief Guest at the function. Professor
Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Member, Governing
Board of the PFI, chaired the function.
The programme started with a short presentation
on 'Dimensions of Gender and Rights in
Reproductive Health Service Delivery in a Target
Free Regime' by Dr Abhijit Das, Advisor,
Sahayog, which was followed by short
presentations on the' Intensive Advocacy
Campaign on Pre-birth Elimination of Females'
carried out in the nine districts of Delhi. All the
three organizations
involved in the
implementation of the Campaign, made
presentations on their respective activities. Ms.
Bijaylaxmi Nanda, Coordinator of the Campaign
against Pre-Birth Elimination of Females (CAPF),
presented the activities carried out by the Centre
for Women's Development Studies, while Ms.
Gayatri Paul and Ms Divya presented the
activities of the Aravali Vikas Sangathan and
Datamation Foundation Charitable Trust
respectively. A video recorded version of the
Odissi dance performance, one of the highlights
of the campaign in Delhi, was screened.
The two publications titled 'Quote Unquote'-
Reaching out and 'National Consultation on Law
Policies & Rights in the Context of Reproductive
Health and Population Stabilization' as well as
the compact disc of a film titled 'Kinara' were
released by the Chief Guest as part of the
programme. 'Quote Unquote' - Reaching out,
documents the results of a study carried out with
young people and by young people, in schools
as well as those out of schools, in Delhi and
Madhya Pradesh.
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Global FundRound4 HIV/AIDS Project:
Access to Care and Treatment (ACT)
The Global Fund and the Population Foundation
of India (PFI) signed a grant agreement on March
7, 2005 to implement the programme, ':4ccess
to Care and Treatment (ACT)" in the six high
prevalence HIV/AIDS states of India, which are
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
Maharashtra, Manipur and Nagaland. The first
phase of the project is from April 1, 2005 to
March 31,2007. This project is a public - private
sector partnership where the National AIDS
Control Organization (NACO) provides
Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) at the public
health facilities. The PFIled NGO/private sector
consortium provides ongoing care & support and
follow-up services to People Living with HIV/
AIDS (PLHAs.)
The Indian Network for People Living With HIV/
AIDS (INP+), Freedom Foundation, Engender
Health Society and Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) are the core sub-grantees for
implementation of the project. The PFI is
responsible for managing the programme grants,
conducting operation research studies,
monitoring and evaluating the project and is
responsible for the overall deliverables to the
Global Fund. The INP+ is responsible for setting
up Treatment Counselling Centres (TCCs),
District Level Networks (DLNs) and Positive
Living Centres (PLCs). The Freedom Foundation
will set up Comprehensive Care and Support
(CCSC). The CII is responsible for advocating
with the corporate sector and getting the
corporate sector health facilities to provide ART
services. The Engender Health Society (EHS) is
responsible for capacity building activities.
This component aims at improving survival and
quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS and
at reducing HIV transmission.
To reduce morbidity and mortality associated
with HIV/AIDS and the transmission of HIV in
six high prevalence states by combining care,
treatment (including antiretroviral treatment),
prevention and support.
. District Level Networks (DLN): District
Level Networks are the nodal points for
providing care and support services to
PLHAs. The main activities of DLNs are to
provide counselling, refer PLHAs to other
service delivery points, conduct support
group meetings, provide care and support
to PLHAs through treatment education and
linkages with other service providers and
support PLHAs on ART to adhere to
treatment through Peer Treatment
Educators.
. Treatment Counselling Centre (TCC): The
INP+ has set up Treatment Counselling
Centre (TCC) at the public tertiary/district
institutions providing ART. These centres a. re
specifically meant to strengthen the
counselling services provided at the public
institutions; to provide treatment education,
individual/group counselling to prepare
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clients to accept their status, to motivate and
build social support, to refer them to the
DLNs and to support them in adhering to
the treatment.
. Positive Living Centres (PLC): The first
PLC was set up in Bhagalkot district of
Karnataka. It is envisaged that the PLC
would provide prevention, care and support
services to People Living with HIV/AIDS,
outreach interventions and linkages with
existing services and organizations. It
addresses the economic and legal needs of
infected, affected and vulnerable women and
children.
. Comprehensive Care & Support Services
(CCSC): The Comprehensive Care and
Support Centre (CCSC) is set up by
Freedom Foundation for providing
comprehensive care and support services
and palliative care for those who are
terminally ill. A centre has been established
at Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in the
first phase of the programme:
. ART services at the corporate sector
health facilities: The Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) is responsible for advocating
with the corporate sector and getting the
corporate sector health facilities to provide
ART services. In order to achieve the
deliverables, CII undertook three main
initiatives
1. Advocacy with the private sector for
mainstreaming HIV/AIDS issues
2. Advocacy for facilitating the setting up of
private sector supported ART centres
3. Testing the feasibility of the 'Health Smart
Card' - an innovative IT-solution for
monitoring patients and disease progression
Associated Cement Companies (ACC) is setting
up the first corporate ART centre at Wadi,
Gulbarga in Karnataka. The CII is also at
different stages of discussions with various other
corporates for establishing ART centres
. Capacity Building: Engender Health Society
(EHS) is developing and implementing an
integrated programme of training and
institutional capacity building by establishing
two Continuing Education & Training Centres
(CETC) to serve the six high prevalence
HIV/AIDS states. The EHS will do the
training of peer educators, counsellors/social
workers, health care providers and staff of
NGOs in home based care.
The PFI has set up a Project Management Unit
(PMU) led by a Project Director for The Global
Fund program. The PMU is situated at the central
office of the PFI and functions under the
leadership of the Executive Director of the PFI.
The PMU coordinates all activities and monitors
and evaluates the programme. State programme
coordination units are set up in all the six states.
The PFI has set up a Project Advisory Board.
This is the main advisory body for the
programme. The members of thelPAB include
external experts in the field of HIV / AIDS,
members of the core sub-grantees and some
Governing Board members of the PFI. They
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review the progress of the project from time to
time and provide guidance to the proposed future
activities. Three meetings have been held on July
25, 2005, November 11, 2005 and February 13,
2006
implementation of state specific plans. Meetings
have been held in each of the six states in every
quarter.
The PFI Coordination Committee with NACO
has been constituted at the national level to
facilitate coordinated implementation of the
project. This has been done in consultation with
the Director General, National AIDS Control
Society. The PFI convenes meetings with NACO
in every quarter to share experiences, address
ground realities, and assist in the smooth
functioning of the project. It facilitates further
coordination and provides directive to respective
State AI DS Control Societies for the
implementation of the project.
Two meetings were held with NACO on October
4, 2005 and January 16, 2006 chaired by the
Director General of NACO.
The PFI has established State Coordination
Committees with respective State AIDS Control
Societies (SACS) in each of the six high
prevalence states. The PFI convenes meetings
with the Project Directors, Additional and Deputy
Directors, ART Consultants, Monitoring and
Evaluation Consultants of SACS along with
representatives of INP+, state level networks
for people living with HIV/AIDS, Freedom
Foundation, Engender Health Society and
Confederation of Indian Industry in each of the
six high prevalence states to facilitate smooth
. Review meetings with the PFI state teams are
held on a quarterly basis for planning, reviewing
and providing feedback on state specific
progress. Three meetings were conducted in
August 2005, November 2005 and February
2006.
On December 1 2005, all the state offices and
the Programme Management Unit participated
in the activities of the World AIDS Day. The
Manipur state programme coordination unit of
the Population Foundation of India organized a
meeting on December 3, 2005 at Imphal,
Manipur. The programme was organized as part
of the World AIDS Campaign 2005 to promote
the theme, "STEPPING UP AHEAD... "STOP
AIDS; KEEP THE PROMISE". The Project
Director, Manipur AIDS Control Society was
invited as the Chief Guest. Most of the
participants represented the state level networks
and district level networks of PLWHAs along with
some medical experts in the field of HIV/AIDS
at Manipur.
The monitoring and evaluation framework and
MIS has been developed in consultation with
each of the Core Sub-Grantee (CSG).
Field visits and regular review of progress reports
have brought out the need for developing
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software aiming at improving the quality of
reporting and easy analysis at all levels. The MIS
software is in the process of being developed to
facilitate easy reporting and analysis at all levels.
Once the software is developed, the PFI would
conduct a series of workshops on building the
capacity of end users. .
Four operations research studies have been
initiated:
1. Assessing PLHAs' expectations about
quality of care and support services with a
view to help District Level Networks
2. Understanding support group meetings of
People Living with HIV CPLHAs)
3. Setting up standard guidelines for providing
care & support services including palliative
care
4. Documenting various models of HIV/AIDS
training in select states of India
The external evaluation for the first year was
initiated from March 27. 2006 by an external
team.
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District Level Network, Bellary, Karnataka:
This is a case study of a District Level Network
in the ACT programme, which has rendered
services for PLHAs by networking with various
organizations besides counselling, referrals and
conducting support group meetings. Nearly 50
PLHAs received loans in the form of materials
to carry out income generation activities. The
Accounts Officer reported that 98% of PLHAs
have been repaying the loan amount promptly.
Nearly 500 infected and affected children are
getting free books and uniforms. The DLN
officials have helped in maintaining good
relations and co-ordination with District Health
Authorities and other NGOs, which have further
helped in implementing and running the
programme successfully.
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Research, Studies and Evaluation
Among the major states in India, Andhra Pradesh
recorded the lowest intercensal population
growth of 13.9 percent during 1991-2001. The
major inniaHves undertaken In tne state to 1ower
fertfffty are flaired by many within and outside
the state as contributing to this landmark
achievement. Andhra Pradesh has indeed
experienced significant fertility decline in record
time. Fertility decline is mainly attributed to the
effective implementation of state-sponsored
family planning efforts, leading to greater use
of contraception. Fertility has fallen without much
significant improvements in literacy leve/s of
women, without decline in the incidence of
poverty or an increase in the average age at
marriage of women, or even as a response to
infant and child mortality decline. It is, therefore
a puzzle as to why fertility in Andhra Pradesh
has fallen so rapidly in the recent decade. The
observed phenomenon needs to be explored at
the household level from the perspective of
women, at the societal or community level and
a/so at the level of the providers or functionaries,
including the health system and their
contributions to the demographic transition need
to be assessed.
Keeping this in view, the PFI in collaboration with
the Gujarat Institute of Development Research,
Ahmedabad and the Academy for Nursing
Studies, Hyderabad has initiated a study on
Demographic TransitiOn in Andhra Pradesh:
Determinants and Consequences. The main goal
of the study is to understand and analyze the
levels/trends in fertility and mortality in Andhra
Pradesh within the socio-political and
developmental context of the state. The specific
objectives of the project are:
. To analyze socio-economic
factors
associated with fall in fertility and mortality
levels and trends in Andhra Pradesh
. To study the bio-demographic factors
associated with demographic transition in
Andhra Pradesh
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To analyze the behavioural and cultur~1
factors associated with fall in fertility and
mortality in Andhra Pradesh
. To assess the influence of the health and
family welfare services on decline in fertility
in Andhra Pradesh
. To review the contribution of women's
empowerment processes to fertility decline
. To review the socio-political mechanisms
initiated and implemented in the state and
assess their influence on demographic
transition.
The study covered a randomly selected 120
villages in four districts of Andhra Pradesh,
namely, Kurnool, Nizamabad, Krishna and East
Godavari. Both quantitative and qualitative data
was collected from these districts. A total of
3577 households and 3217 women in the age
group of 15-49 years were covered from these
four districts. Qualitative data was collected from
women in the community and ANMs through
Focused Group Discussions (FGDs). Data was
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collected through in depth interviews with key
stakeholders. Quantitative data was collected
during the period September 2005 to January
2006. The draft report, consisting of findings
from the quantitative and qualitative study has
been received. The study is scheduled to be
completed by the end of August 2006.
The Population Foundation of India implemented
two Adolescent Reproductive Health projects in
association with Parivar Kalyan Sansthan (Tata
Engineering Co.) and Tata Steel Family
Initiatives Foundation (TSFIF) in the slum areas
of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. Each partner NGO
covered an adolescent population of around
20,000 both married and unmarried in the age
group of 12-19 years. The main objectives of the
projects were:
./ To provide sex education through adolescent
reproductive health (ARH) sessions in
schools and Kishore/Kishori groups.
./ To provide life skills to increase their decision
making power and negotiating skills.
./ Topromote condom use amongst youth.
./ To create awareness about STD and HIV/
AIDS.
./ To promote gender equality and gender
equity.
./ Tocreate responsibility of child spacing and
child bearing amongst both males and
females.
./ To provide a wide and informed range of
contraceptives through clinics.
The primary strategy included conducting ARH
sessions in schools and addressing drop-out
adolescents through peer approach, which was
complemented by making services accessible to
the adolescents and IEC activities. The key
strategy included the formation of adolescent
groups and the sensitization of adolescents on
RH issues through peer approach. In addition to
the above, both in and out of school sessions
were organized with adolescents, teachers and
parents. As part of the project, health melas,
quiz programmes, nukkad nataks and other IEC
activities were organized with active participation
of adolescents at the community level.
Reproductive health services were provided
through clinics located with in the urban slums.
The endline evaluation of the project was carried
out. The findings revealed that:
. Both the implementing agencies were
successful in disseminating information on
ARH to the adolescents in the form of ARH
sessions in the schools and in the locality
though health melas, nukkad nataks and
counselling by the field workers. The
information disseminated through friends
and relatives was found to be effective.
. The ARH sessions organized by the
implementing agencies was found to be well
attended by study respondents (97%). The
strategy to involve the Education and Health
Department to organize training proved to
be successful.
. The formation of Kishore and I-\\ishori Groups
of adolescents was a key innovative strategy
to reach out to adolescents. As members of
the group were from the same locality, a
majority of them could disseminate the
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knowledge on ARH issues to their peer
groups.
. Adolescents' attitude towards small family
was very favourable. About 93 percent of
adolescents in the project area were aware
of the small family concept. Information on
the minimum gap a couple should maintain
to have the first child and advantages of child
spacing was provided to the adolescents.
. The project intervention has helped in
increasing knowledge on key issues related
to marriage, years of gap after marriage for
the first child. Knowledge of prevention of
pregnancy was very high. Eighty three
percent of the adolescents were aware of
the same.
. . Most of them were aware of various
contraceptive methods such as Cu-T,
condom and oral pills. Condom as a method
of family planning and protection against
RTI/STI has been sufficiently advocated and
promoted amongst the adolescents.
. The project had a positive impact qn the
attitude of unmarried adolescent males as
around 70 percent of them now want to get
married only after getting a job or after
attaining economic stability in their lives.
. The qualitative study brought out the fact
that the confidence level of adolescent
females had increased, as most of them
stated that they would marry only after
achieving educational and economic status.
. The project had a very positive impact in that
adolescents' awareness on the causes of
spread of HIV/ AIDS increased. It also helped
in eradicating the myths and misconceptions
related to HIV/AIDS, amongst adolescents.
. The project was successful in bringing out
an overall change in terms of knowledge,
attitude and practice amongst adolescents
on key reproductive health issues.
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Scaling up Pilot Projects in Reproductive Health and Child
Health in India
This project is being implemented as an initiative
by the Population Foundation of India (PFI) in
partnership with Management Systems
International (MSI), a United States based
management consultancy firm. This is a two year
project supported by John 0 and Catherine T
Mac Arthur Foundation since March 2006. This
project would enable successful scaling up of
pilot projects in the field of reproductive and child
health including adolescent health. The project
and programme staff of the PFI underwent an
orientation programme on scaling up framework
in March 2006. The Home-Based Newborn Care
of SEARCH, Improving Reproductive Health of
Married Adolescent Girls of IHMp, Pachod and
Immunization Model of Seva Mandir are some
of the selected models for this initiative.
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THAKUR,VAIDYANATHAIYAR& CO.
Chartered Accountants
New Delhi, Mumbai. Koikata, ChennaL
Palna, Hyderabad and Chandigarh
Accounts
221-223, oeeo Dayal Marg. New Delhi-110002
Phones: 011-23236958-60. 23237772
Fax: 011.23230831
E-mail: tvand@vsnl.com
wande@rediflmail.com
AtUUTOR'SREPORT
We have audited 1I1eBalance Sheet of Population Foundation of India as at 31" March, 2006
and the Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended on that date annexed thereto,
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Management. Our responsibility is to
express ~.nopinion on these fiD/mciel statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in India
and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and International Accounting Standards.
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance
about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatements. An audit includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. We report that we have
obtained all the information and explanations which, to the best of our knowledge and belief:
were necessary for the purpose of our audit and that in our opinion and to the best of our
information and according to the explanations given to us, the said accounts together with 1I1e
significant Accounting Policies and Notes forming part thereof give a true and fair view:
(i) in the case of Balance Sheet, of the state ofaffaifS as at 31"March 2006 and
(ii) in the case of Income and Expenditure Account, of the Surplus for the year ended
on the date.
Place:
Date :
New Delhi
June 30,2006
(\\'i;r~'~/:;N)})
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Chartered Accountants
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Partner
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POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA
BALAl'!CE.SUF"U AS AT MARCH 31. 2006
.
Asat
March 31 2005
as.
50000000
LIABILITIES
CORPUS FUND
Balancebrouehtforward
SOCIE'O[ FUND
10,23,19.166 BalIllOObroushtforward
Add: Amount transferred from Income IIId ExpendillR.
22.WJ.I Account
- 11,22 67 684
UNVTILISED PROJECT GRANTS
FOREIGN
CONTRIBtmON
4,53,12,591 (As per Schedule I _ed)
26.64 420
2,47,048
22,85.575
10,71,847
.rw.m
9in181
2136.36,876
UNUTILISED PROJECT GRANfS- LOCAL
(As Mr Schedule J IDDexed)
CREDITORS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
Soodry creditors
Oratuity
Leave Salary Encashmenl
Rem advance
as.
11..22,67,684
l..12&m.
3,14,120
21,61,163
11.09,919
As at
Mardl31 2006
as.
50000 000
As at
ASSETS
MI.u31.2005
as.
FIXED ASSETS
1.2538 848 (As ocrSchedule'A' annexed)
INVESTMENTS(At Cost)
15,30,00,000 (Aspor Schedule'B' SInned)
127010.976
3,63,18,196
1988 732
1 02,41 030
22.55.58334
INTEREST
ACCR'Q£D
ON
22,05,438 INVESTMENTS
488.27061
1.82,7(!O
CASH AND BANK BALANCES
(As -
edide 'C' IIIIIexedI
SUNDRY DEPOSITS (V_um
eqDSidered good)
28,82.829
ADVANCES
(Ullse.ared
coDSIdend llood)
Advlllces recoverable in cash or in
kind or value to be re<:eived.
2136.36.876
As at
MInh 31. 2006
as.
1.23.00.236
16,10,00,000
20,46,667
482.32.801
2,47,700
17,31,530
22.55.58.934
Significant Accounting Policies and Notes to the Accounts (As per Schedule 'V annexed)
New Delhi
As per our report of even date attached
For Thakur, Vaidyanath Aiyar &.Co.
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(K.N. GUPTA)
Partner
, LA"" V\\ '-'
(S~~ESHAN)
Secretai)' &.Treasurer
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(A.R. NANDA)
Executive Director
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(DR. BHARAT RAM)
Chairman
Dated: 3 0 JUN2006
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POPULATION POUNDATlON OF INDIA
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR TIlE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31J006
Yuread'"
EXPENDITURE
Mareh 31.
2005
RI.
as.
GrUb Db"."""
CDr PraleetJlPl'DIPramm..
Yearend'"
March 31.
2006
RI
YeareDd'"
Mareh 31.
2005
as.
INTEREST:
INCOME
12,45,462 Policy ResearcblSludies (As per SeheduIe 'D'
anneXed'!
22,17,156 InCormatiOll, £4ucation and CommuniC8lioo
redule
'E' annexed)
1,78,63,921 Demonstration/Action Rcsean:It (As per Schedule 'F'
onnexed)
14,34,026
26_800
2 787365
Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Task Force
(As nor Schedule '0' am......n
Awards (As IIer Schedllle 'H' annexed!
9,05,362
10,87,074
1,48,09,308
4,83,675
162200\\
17123,219
Grant-in-aid ftom Intemational Agencies utilized
89,80,744 during the}'Car (As per Schedule 'I' annexed)
7,10,68,180
Grant-in-aid ftom Local Agencies utilized during Ibe
9638 027 vear(As Dcr Schedule 'J' anncx..n
25-30,884 Pro' oct Dcvelonment Ex-
1521570 Monitorin2 and Evalualion Exnenses
16,28354 IEC Exnenses
37;55,333 Management and Administration Expenses (As per
Schedule 'K' annexed)
3 96 400 Proacrtv Tax
1745173 SubJettin2cbar2es
I 58 960 Librarv Books and Pcrindicals
529 Loss on sale oCassets
38 570 Audit Fcc
1058,204 Deoreciation
99,48,5 18 Excess or Income over Expenditun: lransf'erred to
Societv Fund Account in the Balance Sheet
6.41 88,831
Significant ~ing
Policies and Notes to the Accounts (As pet Schcdllle ' L' minexed)
10777,579
26,64,773
16 10 382
13 18 589
35,32,262
3 96 400
17,67190
68 900
3507
39 284
14,76 673
I 4743.292
12.65.90.130
As per our report or even date anached
r;r~- For Thakur, Vaidyanath Aiyar &:Co,
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(K.N. GUPTA)
Par1ner
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SCCrell\\l)' '" Treasurer
1,20,57,040 Oa Investments (Gross).
1,22,699 Oa savinp bank 8A:4XIUIII
1.21 85811
7,67,250
Others
.TIX deducted 81souroe during Ibe year
RI Nil (prmo.. year Rs 240 40 I)'
Incentives on Investments
2.32.71,628
WL12I
3.10 09 936
89,80,744
9638027
147121
4 59,942
lW11
For fioor spacc
For fixture and fillings
- anacbed 10 the
bwlding (net)
Grant-in.aid !Tom International Agencies
utilized during the year (As per Schedule 'I'
annexed)
Grant-in-aid ftom Local Agencies utilized
durin2the vear (As IlOlS"chedule T annexed!
Miscellaneous ReceiDb
Ad'ustment oCPropertyTIX liability
6.41J11!JlJI
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(~R. NANDA)
Executive Director
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(DR. BHARAT RAM)
Chlimum
Vur eDded
Mareb 31.
2006
Rs.
1,17,56,798
1,67,456
lJ!.m
11934629
2,00,000
2 35 62 S65
3,25,52 490
7,10,68,180
1,0777 579
57 352
12 65.90.230
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Population Foundation Of India
Summary of Fixed Assets as on 31st March 2006
Annexure' A .
(AMOUNT IN RUPEES)
. LAND LEASEHOLD
2
3 rUMIOLDTIONRG VEHICLE
4 IFURNITURE & FIXTURE
EQUIPMENT
6 ITEMPORARY WOODEN.
PARTITIONS/STRUCTURE
TOTAl
99 Years
5%
20%
10%
33.33%
100%
475023
23139154
659429
1948583
391,986
3795922
485,432
387860
00
65 8
77,811
465.985
543796
475023
23139154
659429
2262756
3915389 .
387860
30739593
99706
12887358
328079
1256440
3109882
4798
522590
66670
106317
58,847
388438
459,732
3878601
I
104504 375317
13209946 10451798
392749
333350
1305910
692143
3038388
686240
387860
370519
9929208
266660
956848
i
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(S.
HAN)
Sectetary & Treasurer
(A. R HANDA)
Executive Director
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SCHEDULE 'B'
POPULATIONFOUNDATIONOF INDIA
SCHEDULEOF INVESTMENTS(AT COST)
SI. Name of the Company Year of
No.
Maturity
LONG
TERM
Nature of
Investment
Amount
As at
March 31,
2006
Rs.
As at
March 31,
2ooS
Rs.
1. Cement Corporationof 1996
IndiaLimited
Fixed
Deposit
75,00,000 75,00,000
2. Housing and Urban 200412006 Fixed
Development
Deposit
-
CorporationLimited
50,00,000
3. CANFINHomeLtd.
2005
Fixed
Deposit
-
70,00,000
5. 001-8% RBI Bonds
2009120101
201112012
Bonds
15,35,00,000 13,35,00,000
TOTAL
16,10,00,000 15,30,00,000
(si:s~HAN)
Secretary & Treasurer
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Executive Director
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SCHEDULE 'C'
POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA
SCHEDULE OF CASH AND BANK BALANCES
As at
As at
March 31, 2006 March 31, 2005
Rs.
Rs.
1. Cashin hand - General
2. In Savinllsaccountwith:
2.114
20.849
i) IndianBank
ii) StateBank of India
- iii) Indian Overseas Bank Donation!
Grantsfrom abroad
- iv) IndianBank,New Delhi Slum
Proiectfundedby SIFPSA
- v) Indian Bank, New Delhi CBD
projectfundedby SIFPSA
vi) IndianBank,AUgarh- Slumproject
fundedby SIFPSA
- vii) Indian Bank, AUgarh CBD project
fundedby SIFPSA
- viii) Indian Bank. New Delhi - PFI
GOI-CPp6roiect funded by UNFP A
ix) Indian Bank, New Delhi - PFI-
GOI-Communicationprojectfunded
byUNFPA
x) IndianBank,New Delhi - PFI-
Koraput Droiectfunded by UNFPA
xi) Indian Bank.New Delhi- PFI-RRC
project fundedby GOI
- xii) IndianBank,RRC Raipur
xiii) Indian Bank, New Delhi - PFI-
UNDP Proiect
96.25,301
4,74.939
3.63,18,196
-
12,198
-
-
4,22,823
4,59,388
6,67,736
4.53,12,591
1,066
1,794 .
2,433
8,670
5,77,709
2,26,137
-
5,68,634
60,668
5,21791
4.82.32,801
4,56,064
61,073
-12,57,688
-
4,88.27.061
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(S~~SESHAN)
Secre~ & Treasurer
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SCHEDULE'D'
POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA
,
SCHEDULEOF GRANTSDISBURSEDFOR PROJECTSIPROGRAMMES
UNDERPOLICY RESEARCH/STUDIES
Sl.
Title ofthe Project
No.
Amount Disbursed
Rs.
Year ended Year ended
March 31, March 31,
2006
2005
1. QualitativeEvaluationof PFI's projects .
2. Effective Management of PHC set up through PFI
members (Model Project for Haryana)
VARDAAN Consultants, Baroda
3. Study of Demographic Transition in A.P. -
Determinants & Consequences. Academy for
Nursing Studies and Gujarat Institute of
Development Research
TOTAL
2,83,530
3,21,702
3,00,130
9,05,362
5,39,520
5,05,942
2,00,000
12,45,462
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Secretary & Treasurer
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SCHEDULE'E'
POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA
SCHEDULE OF GRANTS DISBURSED FOR PROJECTSIPROGRAMMES
UNDER Im'ORMAUQN. EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAMMES
SI.
Title of the Project
No.
Amount disbursed
Rs.
Yearcnded Year ended
March 31, March 31,
2006
2005
- 1. Focus on Population: A Newsletter QuarterlyBulletinof
PooulationFoundationof India.
3 50 654
2,05,632
2.
- Training Programme on Management-Cum-Behavioural
Change Communication Centre for Media Studies, New
Delhi.
1,32,000
-
3. Empowerment of the Community on Issues of Population,
Health and SocialDevelopmentthrough CommunityRadio in
Chattisgarh Belt. Gram Vikas Mandali Association Tmst.
MunReli.Chatisgarh
59,200
61,631
4. Empowerment of Community Radio on issues of Population
Health and Social Development through community Radio
Programmein Six Districtsof Bihar State, BVHA Patna
5. Empowerment of the Community on Issues of Population,
26,125
1,26,064
Health and Social Development through CommunityRadio in
SambalpurDistrictof Orissa. NIAHRD, Cuttack, Orissa.
6. Empowermentof Community on issues of PopulationHealth
3,17,522
2,29,385
and Social Development through Community Radio in
backward and trial district of south Orissa served by AIR
Jaypore & AIR BhavaniPatna.PFI and AIR.
1,51,403
251,327
7. Community Ratio Programme, UJALA in Hindi Language
through MW covering 16 Districts ofMP and Border areas of
Raiasthan. Guiarat& Maharashtra.PFI and AIR.lndore
45,670
8. Workshop on BCC in 26 Diocese of CNI, SynodicalBoard of
Health Sciences
-
9. Three in one CommunicatioPnackagefor empowermenotf
1.75000
communityon the issues of Population.Health & Social
Developmentthrough Phone in CommunityRadio and
TrainingProgrammein the Stateof Haryana.AravalisVikas
Sangathan.
-
10. Proposalfor EssayCompetitionat SecondarySchoolLevel.
Rotary International(RI Districts 3010)
-
1,60,617
35,000
11. Promotion of Scalpel Vasectomy through electronic media,
production of telefilm and 3 promotional spots. PFI and
Eleonara ImaRes.
4,500
9,72,500
Total
1087.074
22.17 156
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(S. RAMASESHAN)
Secretary & Treasurer
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SCHEDUL:&<F'
POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA
SCHEDULE OF GRANTS DISBURSED FOR PROJECI'SIPROGRAMMES
UNDER DEMONSTRATION/ACTION RESEARCH PROJECI'S
SL
Title of the Projed
No.
Amount disbursed
Rs. .
Year ended Year ended
March3!,
1006
1. Setting up of Regional Training and Resource Development
March3!,
1005
Centre. for Training of NGOs on RCH Issues, NIAHRD,
Cuttack
80.000
2. Promotion of Reproductive and Child Health in selected
slums of Delhi through Mobile Health Services and Self Help
GroupsP, FI. .
3. Capacity Building ofNGOs of Bihar through setting up and
running ofRTRDC. ADITID, Patna
4. Mother and Child Health Project. SAMADHAN,
Madhubani, Bihar.
s. Capacity Building of NGOs of UP through setting up and
running ofRTRDC. St. Catherines Hospital, Kanpur.
6. Total Integrated Programme in the District of Dewas, MP.
- 93,664
2.26.392
11~568
76.462
PFI & Ranbaxy Community Health Care Society. .
7. Capacity Building of NGOs through setting up and running
of RTRDC in Jharkhand State. Alternative for India
5~00.000
Development, Jamshedpur.
.
8. Capacity Building of NGOs through setting up and running
ofRTRDC. PRC, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur.
9. Intensive Family .welfare Project in Gunnour Block, Badaun
District, UP. Tata Chemical Society for.Rural Development
10. Improving the availability and quality of RCH Services at the
grass-root level. Bhoruka Charitable Trust.
- II. Cat*ity Building for NGO's of Maharashtra State through
setting up and running ofRTRDC SHED, Mumbai
12. Empowerment of SHGs for promoting RCH for a period of
- one year, Bat Niketan Sangh Indore
- 13. Empowerment of SHG's on RCH NIAHRD, Cuttack
Orissa
14. Setting up RCH Resource Centre managed by self help
Affinity groupsMYRADA. BangaIore
15. Empowerment of Self Help Groups on RCH. Centre for
Rural Education and Development CCRED),Madurai
16. Capacity Building for NGOs of Maharashtra State through
96,419
1.75,000
5.00,000
1,50~000
1.00.000
3,50,800
14.071
5.00,000
27.959
1,04,302
9500
setting up and running up RTRDC. Institute of Health
Management Pachod- Maharashtra
17. Capacity Building for NGO's of UP through setting .up and
running up ofRTRDC. CREATE, Lucknow
.
18. Panchayat Raj & CommWlity Awareness Programme in
Uttaranchal- Emmanual Hospital Association. Oehradun
3 00000
3,50,000
6,00000
8,75000
46,300
Adolescent Reproductive Health in Jharkhand State. rata
Steel Family Initiative FOWldation
. .. .
20. Training providers, Benchmarking Services and delivering
10,00.000
FP Clinical Methods through public, private and NGO
sectors in Bihar. JANANI- Patna
CIF
47.66,018
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SL
Title of the Project
No.
Amount disbursed
Rs.
Year ended Year ended
March 31. March 31,
2006
200S
Bm 12.96.257 47.66018
21. AdolescentinitiativeinUttaranchal.HIHr. Dehradun
. 22. Adolescent R.eoroductiveHealth. PKS! TELCO! PFI
- 1000.000
20 4S 000
8 00 000
23. Capacity building of NGOs of Orissa state tlu:ough setting up &
,runJIinRofRTRDC. AGRAGAMEE, Orissa
4,00.000
3 50,000
24. Advocacy on Female Foeticide-SevenStates. PFl and Plan
India
25. CapacityBuildinSofNGOs of 8 districtsof UP,throughsetting
up &:I1D1Dinopf;RTRDC.llidia Literacy Board Lucknow
177,500
4.50.000
35,000
6.10000
- 26. Statelevelconsultationin Jharkhandon youngpeopletowards
a healthy future COO
- 27. StrengtheningNGO capacity to improve maternal &: child
healthstatusin Jbarkhandthrougha life cyclebasedapproach
COO
-
5 00.000
1.0000
15.00000
28. Effortstowardsreducingmaternalmortalitythroughadvocacy
in 4 district Of undivided KoraDut in Orissa.
-
38.359
29. Implementing RCH program through safe motherhood
initiativein Rajasthanstate: SWERA,SRKPS,SSS Rajasthan
Coordinator
3 09 719
1 18 531
- 30. CapacityBuildingofNGOs of Uttaranchalthroughsettingup
and running of RTRDC in Hardiwar(Uttaranchal) Gayatri
- Tirth Shanti Kuni, Haridwar.
31. NAYA,SAVERAa- IntegratedFamilyWelfareProgramme-
Laksbmi Cement &:PFI
- - 32. PARIVARTAN A Familly Welfare &: Population
Develooment Proiect J K Tvre and PFl
-
5.24 070
1-25-117
52,570
7.94 180
12.91,773
33. Enhancinghealth status of women, children&:adolescentsby
MOptitIgRCH1lf6..:yc(e approach In U.I'. Manav Scva
- _.
Sanl:tba4. GonkhDU!
34. Delivery of quality RCH servicesthrough mobile clinics in
urbanslumsof Tigri&:NanglaManchin Delhiand linkagesto
- Communitv Develooment Activities SWMSTHY A
547.453
7.11,480
35. Deliveryof quality RCH servicesthroughmobile clinics and
- linkage to CommunityDevelopmentActivities in Badarpur
slums CASP
3 40,242
8,63,277
- 36. Proposingto strengthenthe knowledgeof SHGsand generate
awarenesson GovernmentHealth Schemes VoluntaryHealth
Associationof India
-
84.960
37. RTRDC Review Meet at PFI office on 29'" to 3011Saeptember,
2004
-
1.31.544
38. Implementing RCH program through safe motherhood
initiativein Raiasthanstate: SWERA.SRKPS SSS AR'IH
20.21.210 18.00.000
. 39. . Proposalfor HostingroTs for the trainersof youngpeopleon
R}( commuui.,y :ioationand advocacv
40. Total Integrated RCH Package for Dewas District.of MP
(Extension Phase). RCHCS
41. Setting up of Regional Resource Centres for implementatiOn of
RCH prol!l'8llllDein the states ofBmar and CbhattiSnrh
2S 570
500000
c.c- .
12..43.526
.50,000
5.00' 000
22,196
k--...
CIF 1.16.90.864
1.78.64,888
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SI.
Title ofthe Project
No.
Amount disbursed
Rs.
Year ended Year ended
March 31, March 31,
2006
2005
BIF 1,16,90,864
42 SupplementaryGrantsfor two SIFPSAProjects
30,194
43. Empowermentof Panchayat Raj Institution on issues of
- 1,78,64,888
PopulationH, ealthand SocialDevelopment.PrakritikSociety,
SawaiMadhopur
(967)
- 44. IntensiveReproductiveHealthand FamilyWelfareProgramme
for BadaunDistrictof UP Tata ChemicalSocietyfor Rural
Development.
45. AdolescentReproductiveHealth- PKSand TELCO
(3750)
2,92,500
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46.
CJhoamrkphraenhdensstaivteRe C-H
programmesfor MALTOTribalsin
Premjyoti Community Health and
Development Project
27,99,500
-
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POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA
SCHEDULE 'G'
SCHEDULE OF GRANTS DISBURSED FOR PROJECTSIPROGRAMMES
UNDER CONFERENCES. SEMINARS. WORKSHOPS AND TASKFORCE
SI.
".Titleof the Project
No.
Amountdisbursed
Rs.
Year ended Year ended
March 31, March 31,
2006
2005
I. Seventh JRD Tata Memorial Oration
28,973
47518
2. Training of Trainers on Population and Health of
Women and Young People- SUKARYA
-
20 000
- 3. Divisional Level Workshop in Bihar ADITHI,
PatnalDORD. DaudnagarlBVHA. Patna
4. A Call to Action - FPAI.
-
5000
-50 000
- 5. NGOIPvt. Sector Consortium on HIV/AIDS, TB &
Malaria PFI ..
1,208
4 88 451
6. Baby Shows organized at every district Headquarters of
Uttaranchal with a special focus on (a) ante-natal care;
(b) post-natal care (c) RCH related concerns of the
mothers; and (d) civil registration of each birth.
Uttarancbal State Council for Child Welfare Dehradun
-
7. Inter-Congress of the International Union of
26,000
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
- held at Kolkata from 12'" to 1511D1 ecember, 2004
for a session on Population and Development: Human
Rights Concern under the sub-theme Commisswn on
Human RiJdlts. .
-
8. Mahila Swasthya Mela organized in Jharkhand in
September 2004. Nav Bharat Jallriti Kendra
9. Orissa state level eonference
--
35000
35000
5 84 507
10. Centre for Operation Research& Training to meet
expenses on second day of conference on 3.12,2004
-
11. Conference on "A Call to Action" held on 12"& 13"
49 550
February, 2005 at S P Jain Auditorium of Bombay
- Hospital. FPAI, Mumbai
12. Wor.kshopon "Gender Awareness and Newborn Care
-
Knowledge,Attitude and Health Care Practices in
20,000
Traditional Birth Attendants and Anganwadi Workers",
Sunderlal Jain Hospital Delhi
13. FemaleChild - From Wombto Tomb - IMA
Hvderabad
14. International Workshop on NSV-Emerging trends and
- applicationofICT Technologies NSVSns India
- 15. Age structuretransition in India PRCS, Dept. of
DemolUl\\phy.University ofKerala.
16. SexSelectionandMedicalEthics- Action India
17. State Level Conference on Health, Chhattisgarh
- 18. Health & Social Development of Women :
Opportunities and Challenges before NGOs MAMTA
19. Two day workshop on Technology to improve services
for the poor - JANANI
20. AlCC-RCOG2181Annual Conferenceto be held at
.
.
70 000
40 000
60,000
I 09,848
35,000
8,646
53,000
25,000
-
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-
-
.
Kolkataon WomenHealthto HealthyWomen- our
challenge
- :! i IJ!I
CIF
75,000
-
4,33,675 14,34,026
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't
SI.
Title of the Project
No.
Amount disbursed
Rs.
Year ended Year ended
March 31, March 31,
2006
2005
BIF
4.33.675 14,34,026
- 21. 3 Day National Conference on 'Health Refonn and
Social Sciences challenges ahead - IASSH, New
Delhi
50,000
-
TOTAL
4.83.675 14,34.026.
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SCHEDULE 'H' .
POPULATION FOUNDATION OF INDIA
SCHEDULEOF GRANTSDISBURSEDFOR
PROJECTSIPROGRAMMESUNDERAWARDS
Sl.
Title of the Project
No.
Amount disbursed
Rs.
Year ended Year ended
March 31, March 31,
2006
2005
1. AIRAwards
2. JRD Tata Memorial Awards for the best
performing state and districts in the field of
reproductive,child health and populationrelated
pro es.
TOTAL
26,800
(189000)
(162200)
26,800
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26,800
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~O~llLATIONJ=OUNDA TJON OF INDIA
SCHEDULE'I'
SCHEDULE OF GRANTSUTILIZEDDURINGTHE YEAR 2005-2006FROMOUT OF FUNDSRECEIVEDFROM INTERNATIONAL
AGENCIESFOR PROJECTSfPROGRAMMESAND BALANCE UNUTlUZEDAS ON MARCH31. 2006
S.NO.
Particulars
1 General Support Grant
Add: Bank Interest
2 The David& lucile Packard Foundation Washington
DC-BulldlngSupportive Environmentfor population
stabilizationby meeting reproductiveand sexual health
- needs of young adults through edvocacy Initiativesin
Bihar and Jharl<hand
An InlllaJ Slap
Balance Brought Forward
Add: Grants In AIddurtng the year
Add: BankInterest
Less : Grants UtIlizedduring the year
Grants Unutlrrzedduringthe year
3 Plan Intemationallne. , New Yorl<- Slate Level
advocacy worl<shopson Female Foeticide for MlAs
and Corpora\\e8 Inthe stales of Haryan , Punjab,
HImachal Pradesh and Gujrat
Balance Brought Forward
Add: Grants in AId during the year
Less: Grants Transf8r to intensive Advocacy Campaign
Add : Bank Interest
less : Grants UtIlized during the year
Grants Unutilized during the year
4
- Population Refefence Buraau , Washington DC HIV/
AIDS Chart Book and statIf fact sheets
Balanoe Brought Forward
Grants InAIdduring the year
Add: Bank Interest
;. Less: Grants UII1lzedduring the year
GI'IInIs Unutillzed duringthe year
... ""
GrantslBank Intt.
Rs.
8,615
302
8,917
For The Year
2005-2006
Grants UtIlized
during the year
R8.
-
Granlll UnuUllzed GrantslBank Inti.
AS on 31.03.2006
Rs.
Rs.
For The Year
2004-2005
Grants UtIlized
during the year
R8.
8,418
.
8,917
197
8,615
GrantS UnuUllzed
AS on 31.03.2005
Rs.
8615
3,784,574
2,728,482
102,861
6,615,917
2,221,067
4,394,850
2,454,189
3.188,500
111 723
5.754,412
1,989,838
3.784,574
345,019
1,746,500
(75.000)
3821
2.020.340
1,292,907
727.433
841,857
1.683.500
12 161
2,337.518
1,992,499
345,019
119,132
225,278
40 509
384,919
384,919
-
321,225
4238
325,463
-
206,331
119,132
01
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S.NO.
Particulars
5 Plan Intematlonallnc.. New York - NationalMvocacy
Campaign against PreBirth sex Selection and Female
Foeticide In Deihl, AP, Maharashtra and Chatisgarh
Balance Brought Forward
Grants In AIdduriog the year
Add: Bank Interest
Less : Grants Utit"1Zedduring the year
Grants UnutirlZedduring the year
Grants/Bank Inft.
Rs.
For The Year
2005.2006
Grants Utilized
during the year
Rs.
Grants Unutlllzed GrantsiBank Inft.
AS on 31.03.2006
Rs.
Rs.
For The Year
2004-2005
Grants Utilized Grants Unutlllzed
during the year AS on 31.03.2005
Rs.
RI.
304,246
1,243.500
10,046
1,557.792
1,272,919
284.873
.
2,798,750
19938
2,818,688
2,514,442
304,246
6 Plan Intemationallnc.. New York. Setting up of
National Secretariat Office
Balance Brought Forward
Grants In Aidtransferred to "Intensive Advocacy Campaign
against Female Feoticide In Delhi"
Add: Bank Interest
Less: Grants Utilizedduring the year
Grants Unutiilzedduring the year
318,985
(4,909)
136,999
277,077
277,077
.
1.053,775
48 758
1,102.533
-
783.548
318,985
7 The David & Lucille Packard Foundation, Washington
DC . Build a Supportive poticy and programme
Environment on rights based population Development
issues in India
Balance Brought Forward
Grants In AIdduring the year
Add: Bank Interest
Less: Grants Utilizedduring the year
Grants Unutilizedduring the year
- - 8 The Global Fund to fight AIDS Tuberculosis and
Malaria Switzerland PFt and Global Fund Project
on HIVAIDS
Balance Brought Forward
Grants In AIdduring the year
Add: Bank Interest
less: Grants Utilizedduring the year
Grants Unutillzedduring the year
4,237.782
5,684,682
78,080
10,000,544
6,923.595
3,076,949
.
5,693.750
58 118
5,751.868
1,514,086
I
I
4,237,782
36,194,238
46.822.042
922,328
83.938.6Q8
56.481.428
27.457,180
-
- 36,194,238
36,194,238
-
36.194,236
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S.NO.
Particulars
Grant8JBank Intt.
Ra.
For. The Year
2005.2006
Grants Utilized
during the year
Ra.
Grants UnutlllZ8d Grant8JBank Inti.
AS on 31.03.2006
Ra.
Rs.
For The Year
2004-2005
Grant8 Utilized
during the year
Ra.
Grants Unutlllzed
AS on 31.03.2005
Ra,
9 Population Reference Bureau
Washington- DC - HIV/ AIDS chart Book, Briefs and
Fact Sheet
Balance Broughl Forward
Add: Grants In AIdDurIngthe year
Add: Bank Interest
Lass : Grants UtJllsedduring Ihe year
Grants Unutilised during the year
-
189,-387
---
189,387
43,308
146,079
-
.
..
- 10 Centra for Development of Populatfon Acllvities Young
People: The auccess stories
Balance Brought Forward
Add: Grants In AId Received during the year
Add: Bank Interest
-
218,000
1908
.--
Less: Grants Utilisad during Ihe year
Grants Unutillsed during the year
219,908
362
219,546
-
-
11 Plan Intemationallnc, -Intensive Advocacy campaign
againstfemalefeotfcldeInDeihl
Balance Brought Forward
Add:GrantsIn aid receivedduringthe year
-
2,091,707
.
Add: Grants In aid transferred from "Plan-5eWng up of
4,909
National Secretariat Project "
Add: Advances tral'l$ferred from "Plan - State Level
75,000
advocacy workshops on Female Foeticide for MLAs
. and Corporates In Ihe states of Haryan , PI.8'IJab,
Himachal Pradesh and Gulrat
Add: Bank.Interest
Lesa : Grants UtJRsedduring the year
Grants Unulillsed during Ihe year
1351
-
2,172,967
2,170,598
-
'
2,369
TOTAL
107,385,378
71,068,180
36.318;196
84,293,336
8,180,744
45,312,691
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POPULATION FOUNDATION OEJNDIA
SCHEDULE' J'
SCHEDULE OF GRANTS UTILIZED DURING THE YEAR 2005-2006 FROM OUT OF FUNDS RECEIVED FROM LOCAL
AGENCIESFOR PROJECTSIPROGRAMMEASND BALANCEUNUTILIZEDAS ON MARCH31.20~6
S.NO.I
Particulars
1St8te Innovationaln Family Planning Services Project
IAgenc( ySIFPSA). InnovativeProgramme on populatIOn
Isoos of NGDs WorkJngin Selected Slums of Aligarh
I
For The Year
200S-2006
Gnlnt8/Bank Intt.1 Grants UtIu-t
during the year
As.
I As.
I
I
Grants Unutlllzed GrantslB8nk Intt.
AS on 31.03.2006
As.
As.
For The Year
2004.2006
Grants Utilized
during the year
As.
Grants Unutlllzed
AS on 31.03.2005
As.
Balance BroughtFOIW8rd
r.GI'8nt8 In Aid during the year
I:Fundsreed.FromPopulabon Foundabonof India
Id:Bank Interest
Id:Advances
I
Leas: GrantsUII1izedduring theyear
GrantsUnutillzedduringthe year
I
. 2 IState innovatiOnsin FamilyPlanningServices Project
,Agency( SIFPSA) FamilyPlanning&RCHCounselling
cum ServIce DelIveryProjectIn lodhe Blockof Aligert!
DIstr1d
Balance BroughtFOIW8rd
Add: Gran1sInAIdduringthe year
Add: Bank Interest
Add:Advances
Add: RevoMng Fund For CSM
Less : GI8IIIs Utilizedduringthe year
GI8I1f:sUnuIIIImd during the year
.3,499
3,369
-123
6,991
-10,464
-278
221
12.983
6.891
7115
26,633
434,0.00
1,822
44 209
506,664
-
503,165
I
J
3,499
12,186
47,166
788,000
1,884
21,186
6093
862,329
I
651,665
I
10,464
3 10rissa State Health end Family Welfare Soctet)'. EI'Iorta
Iowan!s nlduclng MaternalMortality throughAdvot:acyIn
tour district of Undivided Koraput district.in Ortaaa
Balance Brought Forward
Grants In AId during Ih8 year
[Add: Bank Interest
Less: Grants Utilizedduringthe year
Gnmt8Unutilizedduringthe \\M8r
61.073
451,500
8524
621,097
521,097
225,750
2 6112
228,342
-
187,289
I
I
81,073
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S,NO.
Particulars
- 4 MInistry of Health & FamilyWelfe,.. Government of Indle
AlJvocacy & Communication Programme In UNFPA
Country Programme 8
Balance Brough! FOIWIrd
Orants In AId during the yesr
Add: Blnk Interest
LeSI : GrantsUtinzedduringthe year
Orants Unutlllzed during the year
OrantslBenk
Re.
For The Vear
2005-2006
Intt. Ol'llnta UtIlized
during the yur
Re.
Gl'llnta Unutilized
AS on 31.03.2008
Re.
Gl'llntelB8nk Intt.
R..
571,709
1,500,000
32231
2,109,840
1,887,117
422,823
-
4,792,650
52 429
4,845,0711
For The Year
2004-2005
Ol'llnl8 UtIlized
during the yesr
Re.
4,287,370
01'11018Unutlllz8d
AS on 31.03.2005.
Re.
571,709
- 5 Ministry of HesIth&Flmlly Welfare Govemmenotf India
Reglonsl Resource Centre
Blllnce Brought Forward
Gnsntsln AId during the year
Add: Bank Interest
Lell : Grants Utilizedduringthe year
Gl1II1tsUnutllized du<1ngthe year
- 6 Ministry of Heallh & Flmlly Well... Government of Indll
Innovsllve Communlc8tlon Strategy for promotion of Fsmlly
Planning In the EAG Statel
Balance Blough! FOIWIrd
Grants In AId during the year
Add: BankInterest
Less : Grants Utilized cIu11ngthe year
Grants Unutllizedduringthe ye..
1,257,888
1,814,312
20 730
3,092,730
2,524,Of/8
- 45&,084
14915
470,979
244,842
588,834
-
- 1,275.688
1,275.688
228,137
-
1.000.000
20 367
1,020,367
17,978
1.257,888
584,303
45&,084
!
.. I
I
,
- 7 PFI Unicef Global Movement forchlldnsn
Balance Brought FOIW8rd
Grants reed. From Unicef
Less : Orants Utillsed durtng the yesr
Grants Unuti11z8ddurtng the year
8 PFI. SDTTpll)ject
BslanceBroughtFOIW8rd
Gnlntaln aid real. Duringthe year
LeIs : Grante Utilized duringthe yeer
Grants Unutilized during the year
297,923
eo 077
348,000
-
2 000 000
2,000,000
348,000
1;900,000
.
100,000
-
584 000
584,000
- 3,000,000
3,000,000
288,077
3,000,000
297,923
-
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S.NO.
Particulars
9 UNDP- Media: HIV/AIDSProject
Opening Balance
Grants Received during the year
Bank Interest
less : Grants Utilised during the year
Grants Unutilises during the year
10 Costofgrantsfor5 mediafellowshipinMaharashtra&
Gujarat
BalanceBroughtForwards
Grants reed, From IPPF
Leu: Grantsutillsedduringthe year
Grants unutilised during the year
For The Year
2005-2006
GrantslBank Intt. Grants UUllzed Grants UnUUllzed GrantslBank Intt.
during the year AS on 31.03.2006
Re.
Re.
Re.
Re.
.
3,916,200
24911
--
.
3,941.111
3,419,321
521.790
For The Year
2004-2005
Grants UtIlized
during the year
Re.
-
Grants UnUUl1zed
AS on 31.03.2005
Re.
-
-
262 500
.-
262.500
125,350
137.150
-
-
TOTAL
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Secretary & Treasurer
12,766,311
10,777,579
1,988,732
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Executive Director
12,302,447
9,638,027
2,664,420
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SCHEDULE 'K'
PO~ULAl'IQN FOUNDATION OF INDIA
SCHEDULE OF MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
EXPENSES
Particulars
Salariesand allowances
Contributoryprovident fund and gratuity
Otherperquisitesto staff
Honorariumand consultant fee
Legal and Professional expenses
Rent
Travel expenses
Repairs and maintenance:
- Office
-Residence
Insurance
Electricity and water
Postage,telegram and telephones
Printingand stationery
Other Office Expenses
For the year
ended
March 31,
2006
For the year
ended
March 31,
2005
14,55,605
3,06,345
2,58,426
1,34.978
26,513
4,44,219
2,91,011
16,74,978
3,22,686
2,40,793
67,880
31,684
4,10,303
3,35,091
2,47,142
42,611
19,260
61,185
12,696
23,398
2,08,873
35,32,262
95,609
32,880
74,578
97,683
77,678
33,361
2,60,129
37,55,333
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Secretary & Treasurer
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POPULATIONFOUNDATIONOF INDIA
SCHEDULE'V
SIGNIFICANT ACCQUN'I'INGPOLICIES_AND NOTES TO'mE ACCOUNTS
A. Si1!Dificant Accountine: Policies:
i) Accountine: convention:
The accounts are prepared under the historical cost convention on an accrual basis
and in accordance with applicable mandatory accounting standards except
otherwise stated.
ii) Fixed assets and deoreciation:
Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation.
Cost of acquisition/construction includes freight, duties, taxes and other incidental
expenses incurred until installation/commissioning of the asset.
Fixed assets are depreciated on the written down value method at the following
rates of depreciation:
Building
Motor vehicles
Furniture and fixtures
Equipments
Temporary Wooden partitions/Structures
5%
20%
10%
33.33%
100%
Leasehold land is amortised over the life of the lease.
Depreciation on additions is charged for the full year irrespective of the date of
acquisition and no depreciationis charged on assets deleted during the year.
Hi) Investments:
Investments are stated at cost.
iv) Grants:
a) Grants received from external funding agencies, to the extent utilized are
taken to income and the balance amount carried forward as unutilized grants.
b) 'Grants disbursed, out of internal resources of the Foundation. for various
projects are accounted for on cash basis.
v) Retirement benefits:
The Foundation has various schemes of retirement benefits such as provident fund
and gratuity. The Foundation's contribution to the provident fund, leave
encashment and the provision for gratuity in respect of all employees, determined
on an accrual basis, are charged to revenue.
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vi) Forehm currency transactions
Grants received in foreign currency are accounted for at the exchange rates
prevailing on the date the transaction takes place.
B. Notes to the Accounts
1. The Foundation's income is exempt under Section 10(23C)(iv) of the Income Tax Act,
1961 vide Notification No. 13912005dated 4th May, 2005 issued by the Government of
India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), Central Board of Direct Taxes, New
Delhi as it has been categorized as a charitable institution promoting family planning
throughout India.
2. Executive Director Mr A R Nanda's remuneration for the year ended 31.03.2006 is
Rs 5,66,130 (previous year Rs 5,55,093). In addition: (i) he has been provided with a
- unfurnished accommodation perquisite value Rs 96,544 (previous year Rs 46,488); and
(ii) a chauffeur driven car both for official and personal use - perquisite value
Rs Nil (previous year Rs. 31,200).
3. Of the entire actual disbursement$ for projects/programmes till March 31,2006, audited
accounts ttom grantees for Rs 1,73,87,714 (previous year Rs 1,41,02,918) are yet to be
received.
4. InvestmentS in unsecured fixed deposits include Rs. 75,00,000 (previous year
- Rs.75,00,000) placed with the Cement Corporation of India Limited (CCI) a
Government of India undertaking, which has been declared a sick unit by the Board for
Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) under Section 15 of the Sick Industrial
Companies (Special Provisions) Act ~985. This deposit was matured on July 19, 1996
but has not been repaidtill the year ended 31st ~h, 2006 by the CCI togetherwith
interest for the period from July 1, 1997 to March 3I, 2006.
The Foundationhas been making continuous efforts by filing applications with the
CompanyLawBoard(CLB)and BIFRfor the recoveryof the depositwith interest.The
Foundationhas receivedthe entire principal amountof Rs 75,00,000on May 17,2006
from CCI, ostensiblyas One Time Settlementvide their letter No. ACIBIFRIOTS-
06/datedMarch 31, 2006. However, the claim relatingto interest is pending before
Company Law Board (CLB).
5. Figures for the previous year have been regroupedlrearranged, wherever necessary.
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Secretary & Treasurer
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(A R NANDA)
Executive Director.